59th Street Bridge
A01=Daniel Buring
accent
answer
Author_Daniel Buring
background
bridge
Bridge Accent
Can
Category=CFG
Category=CFH
Causal Clause
Comp
Discourse Appropriateness
Discourse Referents
discourse structure linguistics
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Generalized Quantifier
generative syntax theory
habe
ich
intonation semantics
LF Representation
Narrow Scope Negation
Operator Variable Binding
Partitive Reading
pitch accent analysis
Pop Stars
possible worlds semantics
pragmatics of information structure
Quantifier Raising
Quantify Np
question
Question Answer Sequence
residual
Residual Topic
Semantic Information
semantic interpretation of pitch accents
sequences
Strong Quantifiers
structure
Topic Accent
Truth Conditional Effects
Unmarked Word Order
Vice Versa
Weak Crossover Effects
Weak Quantifiers
Product details
- ISBN 9780415168977
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
