The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody

The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody
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Publisher : Oxford Studies in Theoretical
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780198737933
ISBN-13 : 0198737939
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Book Synopsis The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody by : Vieri Samek-Lodovici

Download or read book The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody written by Vieri Samek-Lodovici and published by Oxford Studies in Theoretical. This book was released on 2015 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. This book examines some of the main factors determining the word order of Italian sentences. One such factor, contrastive focus, concerns the final position of phrases that are emphatically contrasted relative to other similar phrases (e.g. "JOHN called, not Bill"). The study of Italian has been particularly relevant to claims that these phrases must always be placed in specific positionstoward the front of a sentence. This book examines the conflicting conditions affecting sentences containing both focused and unfocused phrases, showing that when these conditions and their effects areidentified, the position of contrastively focused phrases is radically different from what was previously thought. The book also investigates why this would be the case, concluding that prosodic conditions concerning the placement of intonational stress are ultimately responsible for key aspects of the word order of Italian sentences, an unexpected result showing that intonation can affect how words are combined together.


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