Focus on additivity : adverbial modifiers in romance, Germanic and Slavic languages / edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare, University of Basel ; Cecilia Andorno, University of Torino.

The chapters gathered in this volume deal with the syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic properties of Additive Focusing Modifiers and new lines of research on these items are pursued.

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Other Authors: De Cesare, Anna-Maria (Editor), Adorno, Cecilia (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 278.
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505 0 |a Focus on Additivity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction: On 'additivity' as a multidisciplinary research field; 1. Focus on additivity; 1.1 Defining the domain of 'additivity' and its expression through additive markers; 1.2 Additive focusing modifiers as a research object: Looking back and moving forward; 2. Perspectives on additive focusing modifiers: Outline of the volume and main research questions; 3. Main research results on the class of focusing modifiers included in this volume; References. 
505 8 |a Part I. Additive FPs from a typological and historical perspectiveChapter 1. Syntax and semantics of additive focus markers from a cross-linguistic perspective: A tentative assessment of the state of the art; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic properties reconsidered; 2.1 Positional variability; 2.2 Interaction with information structure (focus and scope); 3. Comparability; 4. Parameters of variation; 4.1 Marking the focus; 4.2 Marking scope; 5. Discourse markers as a special case of focus markers; 6. Recent comparative and typological studies; 7. Summary and conclusion; Acknowledgements; References. 
505 8 |a Chapter 2. Meaning both 'also' and 'only'?: The intriguing polysemy of Old Italian pur(e)1. Introduction; 2. The wide polyfunctionality of old Italian pur(e) as a focus marker; 2.1 General remarks; 2.2 Exclusive and additive pur(e) in old Italian; 2.3 A good bridging context within FM meanings; 3. Adding further connections: pur(e) beyond the contrast exclusive vs. additive; 3.1 Old Italian pur(e) as identifier; 3.2 From identifier to additive focus marker; 4. Another possible source for additivity outside the focus marker domain; 4.1 Old Italian pur(e) as adversative connective. 
505 8 |a 4.2 From adversative connective to additive focus marker4.3 From adversative to concessive conditional; 5. Pur(e) as an aspectual marker of continuity; 6. Later stages of Italian: some directions for future research; 7. Conclusions; References; Part II. Additive FPs from a semantic, prosodic and pragmatic perspective; Chapter 3. On the distribution of additive focus particles addirittura and perfino/persino in Italian; 1. Introduction; 2. State of research and descriptive categories; 3. Corpora and frequencies; 4. Pilot study: Le monde diplomatique; 4.1 Method. 
505 8 |a 4.2 Initial results and hypotheses5. Main study: Repubblica Corpus; 5.1 Evaluation system and core data; 5.2 ADD/PER at the beginning of a sentence; 5.3 ADD/PER in the middle of a sentence; 5.4 Evaluation of the analysis and implications for the distribution; 6. Results and perspectives; References; Corpora; Chapter 4. French additive particle aussi: Does prosody matter?; 1. Introduction; 2. Additive particles in French; 2.1 Syntactic mobility and semantic scope of aussi; 2.2 Preferences in language use; 2.3 Prosody with additive particles; 3. An experimental approach to the prosody of aussi. 
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650 0 |a Grammar, Comparative and general  |x Function words. 
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650 7 |a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES  |x Linguistics  |x Syntax.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Grammar, Comparative and general  |x Function words  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Grammar, Comparative and general  |x Particles  |2 fast 
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700 1 |a Adorno, Cecilia,  |e editor. 
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