کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
935301 923852 2015 24 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Anarchy in the NP. When new nouns get deaccented and given nouns don’t
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Anarchy in the NP. When new nouns get deaccented and given nouns don’t
چکیده انگلیسی


• Nominal deaccentuation requires neither givenness of N nor overt alternatives.
• Nominal deaccentuation requires an alternative entity currently under discussion.
• If given modified nouns are accented, their antecedent cannot be under discussion.
• Two referring expressions cannot be contrastive and coreferential at the same time.
• Sometimes, nominal deaccentuation is due to rhythm and has no focus interpretation.

We investigate a semantic–pragmatic hypothesis (relative givenness, Wagner, 2006) on an annotated corpus of German speech data. We show that nominal deaccentuation in an [A N] (adjective–noun) combination neither requires the givenness of N nor the availability of a different [A′ N] sequence in the overt discourse context but results from the fact that a referentially distinct alternative is either explicitly or implicitly under discussion. If no such alternative is under discussion, given nouns typically receive main prominence.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Lingua - Volume 165, Part B, October 2015, Pages 230–253
نویسندگان
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