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1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations |
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Linguistische Arbeiten ; v. 557 |
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Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 557.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: Theoretical Issues; Parentheticals and the grammar of complementation; On theticals: A "rootless" analysis of I think; Speaker and quote reduced parenthetical clauses; On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals; Section II: Diachronic and ontogenetic development; An approach to parenthetical courtesy markers in requests in Late Modern English; Origin and development of French parenthetical verbs; Ontogenetic paths to the parenthetical construction; Section III: Prosody and its interfaces |
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Epistemic Parenthetical Verb Phrases: CCommand, Semantic Scope and Prosodic PhrasingAre reporting clauses special cases of parentheticals?; Mapping to prosody: Not all parentheticals are alike; The Vocative in European Portuguese: Prosodic Effects of its Position in the Sentence; Index |
| Summary |
Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the - often contrasting - theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. It covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its empirical orientation: Most contributions are based on data from experiments or corpora |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parenthetical constructions.
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Grammar, syntax & morphology.
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Historical & comparative linguistics.
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Phonetics, phonology.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parenthetical constructions
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Verb
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Parenthese
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Kontrastive Grammatik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schneider, Stefan, editor
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Glikman, Julie, editor
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Avanzi, Mathieu, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110394191 |
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3110394197 |
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3110376032 |
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9783110376036 |
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