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Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Phonology

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Focus (Taalwetenschap) --- German language --- Semantics --- Grammar

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"Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field"--

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse markers. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Particles.

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The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typological characterisation of languages as to discourse configurationality. The investigation of grammatical relations includes the interplay between syntactic functions, morphological case and thematic structure, and the study of the functional and formal complexity of passive in Germanic languages.

Focus (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Grammar, Comparative --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Topic and comment

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The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is shown that the incorporation of focus structure into syntax offers new perspectives for a solution of vexing problems in syntax and semantics. For example, fronting (preposing, 'topicalisation') is treated as a syntactic operation which clearly belongs to core grammar, i.e. is not optional or 'stylistic'; the semantic notion of quantifier raising is dispensed with in favour of a focus structural treatment of phenomena which gave rise to it. The book appeals to generative linguists and to functional linguists who do not believe in an unbridgeable gap between the formal and functional analysis of language.

Focus (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Phonetics --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Syntax --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse analysis --- Syntax. --- Intonation --- Derivation --- Topic and comment --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Intonation (Phonetics). --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax