Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles

ISBN: 9789027205056 出版年：2020 页码：312 Pierre-Yves Modicom Olivier Duplatre John Benjamins Publishing Company

Intro -- Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: What can information-structural categories tell us about discourse particles? -- 1. Discourse particles and information structure: Preliminary definitions -- 2. Information-structural aspects of the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of discourse particles -- 2.1 Givenness and newness in the syntax and semantics of German discourse particles -- 2.2 Common Ground Management and speech act specification as loci for information-structural strategies -- 2.3 A cross-linguistic view: Equivalence and interactions between particles and information-structural strategies -- 2.4 Particle placement, polyfunctionality and the role of information structure in the emergence and specialization of discourse particles -- 3. "Epistemic authority", "engagement" and "enimitives": Information-structural approaches in the face of the newest typological research on particle semantics -- 3.1 Engagement, epistemic authority, egophoricity -- 3.2 "Enimitives" -- 4. The contributions in this volume -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part I. The contribution of information structural strategies to the rise of discourse particles -- Chapter 1. Discourse particle position and information structure -- 1. The position of discourse markers -- 2. Mohawk -- 3. Topic shift constructions -- 4. Focus constructions -- 5. Antitopic constructions -- 6. Grammaticalization -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. Information-structural properties of is that clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantic and pragmatic properties of is that constructions -- 3. Predecessors of is that constructions -- 4. Information-structural partitions -- 4.1 Inverse copula construction -- 4.2 Clefts and pseudo-clefts