The Meaning of Topic and Focus
The 59th Street Bridge Accent
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2012
216 pages
978-1-134-70207-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-70207-7 (9781134702077)
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Person
Büring, Daniel
Content
Chapter 1 Basic Assumptions; Chapter 2 Focus and Discourse; Chapter 3 The 59th Street Bridge Accent; Chapter 4 Quantifiers as S-Topics; Chapter 5 The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy; Chapter 6 The Universal Disambiguator; Chapter 7 Summary;
