Don't interpret focus : why a presuppositional account of focus fails, and how a presuppositional account of givenness works
- This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci. Then, I show that if it is assumed that destressed rather than focussed material is semantically marked, multiple foci are accounted for correctly.
Author: | Uli Sauerland |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1127445 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/proceedings/sub05.pdf |
Parent Title (German): | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung |
Publisher: | Dep. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Univ. of Oslo |
Place of publication: | Oslo |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2009/05/04 |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2009/05/04 |
Volume: | 9 |
Page Number: | 15 |
First Page: | 370 |
Last Page: | 384 |
Source: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/proceedings/sub05.pdf ; (in) E. Maier / C. Bary / J. Huitink : Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 9, S. 370–384 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 216110602 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |