Conditional inversion and GIVENNESS  

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Biezma, Maria

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 20 - 22, 2011, page 552–571.
Topik: Non-canonical word-order; conditionals; pragmatics; discourse; GIVEN.
Fulltext: 552-571.pdf (141.91KB)

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This paper provides support for the claim that non-canonical word-order adds “extra meaning” to natural language utterances (Prince). In particular, it tells us about the informational status of the constituents. The case study in this paper is subject-auxiliary inversion in conditional antecedents. I argue that subjectauxiliary inversion in conditional antecedents indicates that the antecedent is GIVEN (Schwarzschild 1999). This proposal explains further pragmatic inferences such as why inverted conditionals are particularly good as reproaches.

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