The Meaning of Topic and Focus: 59th Bridge Street Accent (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Meaning of Topic and Focus: 59th Bridge Street Accent (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics) Book

Daniel Buring's 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 centered on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents--Focus and Topic--is developed. The account is based on Montagovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment.Read More

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  • 041516897X
  • 9780415168977
  • Daniel Buering
  • 9 October 1997
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 216
  • 1
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