Experiments in Focus : Information Structure and Semantic Processing / Sam Featherston, Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim, Susanne Winkler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Featherston, Sam, Editor.

Hörnig, Robin, Editor.

Wietersheim, Sophie von, Editor.

Winkler, Susanne, Editor.

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; Volume 571.

Linguistische Arbeiten ; 571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markedness (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics interact and how they influence semantic processing and interpretation. The analysis of core information structural concepts that contribute to processing such as focus and contrast, the specific discourse status of referents that add to the common ground, context dependency and markedness as well as prosodic prominence and givenness marking has added new and convincing evidence to the research of information structure and semantic processing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Markedness in context: An approach to licensing

The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence

Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German

Focus and prosody in nominal copular clauses

Focus constraints on relative clause antecedents in sluicing

Markers of discourse status in descriptions of altered spatial layouts

On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization

How to get from graded intuitions to binary decisions

Scrambled Wackernagel! Neural responses to noncanonical pronoun serializations in German

Logical and pragmatic meaning in the interpretation of disjunction: Contextual relevance and scalar implicatures

The processing of argument structure: A comparison between patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and healthy controls

Standard items for English judgment studies: Syntax and semantics

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110622287

3110622289

9783110623093

3110623099

OCLC:

1129150827