Parentheticals

Parentheticals / edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova.

Parentheticals are a fascinating way of interrupting spoken and written utterances. This paper focuses on prosodic aspects of the analysis of such constructions in contemporary German. The investigation starts with a discussion of the prosodic features relevant to the study of parentheticals such as...

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Other Authors: Dehé, Nicole, Kavalova, Yordanka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 106.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Parenthetical constructions.
Linguistics.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Parenthetical constructions
Linguistics
Tussenzinnen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Parentheticals; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; Parentheticals; Syntax and its interfaces; Spoken parenthetical clauses in English; Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements *; The complement of reduced parentheticals*; Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies; And-parenthetical clauses*; On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses*; Invisible constituents?: Parentheses as B-merged adverbial phrases; Semantics/Pragmatics and their interfaces.
  • Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages -Prosody and its interfaces; The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis*; Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses?; Name index; Subject index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

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