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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"contrastive topic"”.
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Revisiting prosodic reconstruction
… of German sentences in which part of a focus or contrastive topic is fronted. Prosodic reconstruction refers to the idea that sentences involving syntactic movement show prosodic parallels with corresponding simpler structures without movement. I propose to model this recurrent observation by …
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Multiple case assignment : an Amis case study
… all the cases it has been assigned when it is a contrastive topic. Moreover, Amis provides strong evidence for treating case-stacking truly as stacking of multiple cases, instead of stacking a focus marker on top of a case marker. In addition, I propose that case morphology and whether a DP can …
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Discourse-Conditioned Wh-Placement in Natural Language
… and conventionally implicates three types of contrastive focus. I propose that both of these effects are made possible due to the unvalued, interpretable [FOC D-LINGKING] feature in the Foc⁰ head which triggers the wh-fronting. Second, D-linking serves as a precondition for wh-nominals to take …
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Nuclear Intonation in Swedish : Evidence from Experimental-Phonetic Studies and a Comparison with German
This thesis investigates Swedish intonation patterns and their interaction with word accent realisation in various pragmatic conditions, using German as a reference language. The point of departure is the wide-spread assumption that Swedish, as a language with a tonal word accent distinction, has a …