Parentheticals / edited by Nicole Dehe and Yordanka Kavalova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dehé, Nicole.

Kavalova, Yordanka.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell = linguistics today ; v. 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Parenthetical constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Parentheticals are a fascinating way of interrupting spoken and written utterances. This paper focuses on prosodic aspects of the analysis of such constructions in contemporary German. The investigation starts with a discussion of the prosodic features relevant to the study of parentheticals such as discussed in previous literature - intensity, articulation rate, fundamental frequency, pauses, and intonation contours - and, drawing on these features, goes on to discuss data from recent parliamentary debates. The results show that future prosodic studies should focus on the transition zone between the part of the anchor clause preceding the parenthetical construction, and the parenthetical construction itself.

Contents:

Parentheticals

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

List of contributors

Parentheticals

Syntax and its interfaces

Spoken parenthetical clauses in English

Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements *

The complement of reduced parentheticals*

Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies

And-parenthetical clauses*

On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses*

Invisible constituents?: Parentheses as B-merged adverbial phrases

Semantics/Pragmatics and their interfaces

Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages -

Prosody and its interfaces

The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis*

Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses?

Name index

Subject index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152641

9781282152649

1282152645

9789027291998

9027291993

OCLC:

647673065