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The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Bridge Street Accent

By Daniel Buering

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
9780203448014, 9780585452937, 9780415168977, 0203269934, 0203448014, 041516897X
LCC
P299.F63 B87 1997
Open Library ID
OL658498M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
972 kB (995807 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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