Focus Particles in German

Focus Particles in German
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9789027255341
ISBN-13 : 9027255342
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Book Synopsis Focus Particles in German by : Stefan Sudhoff

Download or read book Focus Particles in German written by Stefan Sudhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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