Focus Particles in German: Syntax, Prosody, and Information Structure (Linguistik Aktuell) - Hardcover

Sudhoff, Stefan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027255342 ISBN 13: 9789027255341

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010

Synopsis

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027255342
• ISBN 13: 9789027255341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352