Wh-scope Marking
Title | Wh-scope Marking PDF eBook |
Author | Uli Lutz |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027227586 |
This volume deals with what the WH-movement parameter has to say about varieties of WH-dependencies in different languages. Section two introduces WH-scope marking and the related concept of partial WH-movement. Section three, the main approaches to WH-scope marking are introduced.
Papers on Wh-scope Marking
Title | Papers on Wh-scope Marking PDF eBook |
Author | Uli Lutz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 1996 |
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WH-scope Marking in English Interlanguage Grammars
Title | WH-scope Marking in English Interlanguage Grammars PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Schulz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | English language |
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Scope, Prosody, and Pitch Accent
Title | Scope, Prosody, and Pitch Accent PDF eBook |
Author | Hyun Kyung Hwang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2011 |
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This dissertation investigates the prosodic marking of the semantic scope of wh-phrases in Tokyo Japanese (TJ), Fukuoka Japanese (FJ) and South Kyeongsang Korean (SKK). While the interface between prosody and syntax in TJ has attracted intensive recent interest, the experimental approach pursued in this study addresses the issues which have not been resolved in previous research. It expands the scope of the investigation to include relatively understudied varieties of Japanese and Korean. In addition, it takes information/discourse structure into account, and it focuses on experimental verification of crucial questions such as the relationship between wh and focus intonation. The scope of wh-phrases in TJ is marked by F0 compression, exhibiting a resemblance to the prosodic pattern of a contrastive focus. In FJ and SKK, on the other hand, wh-scope is marked by a high flat F0 contour and the deletion of accents on the material inside the domain, indicating that the prosodic whscope marking and focus marking are distinct. Also, it is argued that the accent type of a wh-phrase determines the implementation of the prosodic scope marking: a rising tone yields the high plateau pattern whereas a falling tone yields F0 compression. Based on the characteristics of the prosodic scope marking, two i constructions are examined in which the domain of the prosodic scope marking potentially does not correspond to any syntactic constituent. Embedded scope questions with long-distance wh-scrambling have received little attention and varying claims have been made in the literature about their prosodic scope marking. The results of the investigation of this construction reveal that the right edge of the wh-scope marking aligns with the embedded complementizer regardless of the surface position of the wh-phrase. The other construction involves an in-situ wh-phrase taking matrix scope. The widely accepted wh-island effect is held to block a wh-phrase from taking scope out of a wh-island. However, the results of a production test and a comprehension test demonstrate that both pragmatic context and prosodic scope marking can ameliorate the wh-island effect, highlighting the need for an expanded scope of analysis, one which incorporates the interactivity of prosody, syntax, and information structure observed here.
Dependency and Directionality
Title | Dependency and Directionality PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel den Dikken |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107177561 |
An integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality couched in a syntactic theory constructing trees from the top down.
Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure
Title | Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Ivona Kučerová |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139536230 |
Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.
Approaches to Meaning
Title | Approaches to Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Gutzmann |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2014-08-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004279377 |
The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules that combine them. Both claims have been subject to an intense debate in linguistics and philosophy of language. The original research papers collected in this volume test the boundaries of this classic view from a linguistic and a philosophical point of view by investigating the foundational notions of composition, values and interpretation and their relation to the interfaces to other disciplines. They take the classical theories one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker’s intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, meaning of fiction and literature, as well as vague and paradoxical utterances. Ede Zimmermann is a pioneering researcher in semantics whose students, friends, and colleagues have collected in this volume an impressive set of studies at the interfaces of semantics. How do meanings interact with the context and with intentions and beliefs of the people conversing? How do meanings interact with other meanings in an extended discourse? How can there be paradoxical meanings? Researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, anyone interested in foundational and empirical issues of meaning, will find inspiration and instruction in this wonderful volume. Kai von Fintel, MIT Department of Linguistics