Sentence mood constitution and indefinite noun phrases

  • Sentence mood in German is a complex category that is determined by various components of the grammatical system. In particular, verbal mood, the position of the finite verb and the wh-characteristics of the so called 'Vorfeld'-phrase are responsible for the constitution of sentence mood in German. This article proposes a theory of sentence mood constitution in German and investigates the interaction between the pronominal binding of indefinite noun phrases which are semantically analyzed as choice functions. It is shown that the semantic objects determined by sentence mood define different kinds of domains which have to be uniquely accessible as the range of the choice function. The various properties of the pronominal binding of indefinites can be derived by the interplay of the proposed theoretical notions.

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Author:Horst Lohnstein
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308031
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp23/zaspil23-lohnstein.pdf
ISSN:1435-9588
ISSN:0947-7055
Parent Title (English):Information structure and the referential status of linguistic expression : workshop as part of the 23th annual meetings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Leipzig, Leipzig, February 28 - March 2, 2001 / Ed. by Klaus von Heusinger ; Kerstin Schwabe, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2001; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 23
Publisher:Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/11/14
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/11/14
GND Keyword:Deutsch; Informationsstruktur; Satzakzent
Volume:23
Page Number:17
First Page:141
Last Page:157
HeBIS-PPN:454733534
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 23 = Information Structure and the referential status of linguistic expressions : Workshop as part of the 23 annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Leipzig; Leipzig, February 28 - March 2, 2002
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306646
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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