The Meaning of Topic and Focus : The 59th Street Bridge Accent PDF
by Daniel Buring
Part of the Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics series
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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.
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- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:21/08/2012
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- ISBN:9781134702077
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:21/08/2012
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- ISBN:9781134702077