Parentheticals
Published on 26. July 2007
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-90-272-3370-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject, as well as a range of research articles addressing questions including the syntactic link between parenthetical and frame utterance, the relation between syntactic and prosodic form, the usage and interpretation of parentheticals, and many more. It embraces research findings from different European languages (English, German, Dutch, Romance) and covers an array of forms of syntactic interpolations (from one-word parentheticals to clausal) and a range of methodologies, including empirical research, corpus research, and theoretical analyses. The collection underlines the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to a multi-faceted phenomenon such as parentheticals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3370-7 (9789027233707)
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Nicole Dehé | Yordanka Kavalova
Parentheticals
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07/2007
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Content
1. Preface; 2. List of contributors; 3. Parentheticals: An introduction (by Dehe, Nicole); 4. SYNTAX AND ITS INTERFACES; 5. Spoken parenthetical clauses in English: A taxonomy (by Kaltenbock, Gunther); 6. Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements (by Steinbach, Markus); 7. The complement of reduced parentheticals (by Fortmann, Christian); 8. Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies (by Kiziak, Tanja); 9. And-parenthetical clauses (by Kavalova, Yordanka); 10. On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses (by Del Gobbo, Francesca); 11. Invisible constituents? Parentheticals as b-merged adverbial phrases (by Vries, Mark de); 12. SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS AND THEIR INTERFACES; 13. Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages: A pragmatic typology (by Schneider, Stefan); 14. PROSODY AND ITS INTERFACES; 15. The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis (by Dehe, Nicole); 16. Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in modern German (by Doring, Sandra); 17. Name Index; 18. Subject Index