Daniel Büring

The Meaning of Topic and Focus (eBook, ePUB)

The 59th Street Bridge Accent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134702060
• Artikelnr.: 38443366

Autorenporträt

Büring, Daniel

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Basic Assumptions
Chapter 2 Focus and Discourse
Chapter 3 The 59th Street Bridge Accent
Chapter 4 Quantifiers as S-Topics
Chapter 5 The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy
Chapter 6 The Universal Disambiguator
Chapter 7 Summary