The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent by Büring, Daniel

The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415168977)

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The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent by Büring, Daniel

The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent

$160.00
The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent by Büring, Daniel

The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax.

Author: Daniel B?ing
ISBN-10: 041516897X
ISBN-13: 9780415168977
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/09/1997
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

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