On D-Trees, Beans, and B-Accents  

Oleh:

Büring, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 26 no. 5 (Oct. 2003), page 511-545.
Fulltext: Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 511-545.pdf (3.29MB)

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This paper presents a comprehensive pragmatic theory of contrastive topic and its relation to focus in English. In discussing various constructions involving contrast ive topics, it argues that they make reference to complex, hierarchical aspects of discourse structure. In this, it follows and spells out a proposal sketched in Roberts (1996, p. 121ff), using the formal tools found in Buring (1994, 1997b).1 It improves on existing accounts in the accuracy with which it predicts the non-occurrence of the accent patterns associated with focus and contrastive topic, and locates the analysis of contrastive topics within a broader picture of discourse and information structure.

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