Focus Fronting and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Bianchi, Valentina

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210588.003.0004

Cited by 7 publications

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“…la pasta (or any other food not appropriate for a diet), and there is a contrastive import connected to them, but no presupposition associated. Crucially, these are realised inside the same speech act (Bianchi , 2015, which means that the semantic antecedent is realised at the same time of its contrast. Notice that a contrastive focus is pragmatically felicitous only when in situ, as in (4b), but it cannot be moved to a fronted position (4c).…”

Section: Contrastive Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coniglio

Hinterhölzl

Petrova

2018

AnnOc

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Section: Contrastive Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hinterhölzl

Petrova

2018

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“…For instance, one could also make use of ‘domain widening’ in the sense of Zanuttini & Portner’s (2003) account of exclamatives [4] . However, in what follows we adopt one possible approach in terms of comparative likelihood articulated by Bianchi (2015) and Bianchi, Bocci & Cruschina (in press).…”

Section: Fronting Patterns Beyond Information Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In formal semantics, the relative likelihood of propositions is based on both a relevant modal base and an ordering source that encodes the course of events in the world of evaluation, which in turn serves as the source of the speaker’s general expectations (e.g. Grosz 2012, Kratzer 2012, Bianchi 2015). These two modal components for formalizing the notion of surprise/unexpectedness can be spelled out as (i) the modal base (w), i.e.…”

Section: Fronting Patterns Beyond Information Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Expressive particle verbs and conditions on particle fronting

Trotzke

Wittenberg

2016

J. Ling.

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In this paper, we propose a new distinction between expressive and non-expressive particle verbs in German. The basic observation for our proposal is that these two classes behave differently in the domain of particle fronting. In order to explain this difference, we will show that certain particle verbs are extreme degree expressions and that, therefore, a possible contrast across degrees makes fronting acceptable, even when the particle in isolation is non-contrastable. Our claims are supported by a rating study probing German native speakers’ intuitions about the likelihood of the occurrence of an utterance, without relying on acceptability judgments. We connect these new findings to other forms of non-information-structural fronting patterns that endow utterances with an emphatic flavor.

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“…At first, following previous studies [6,7,[9][10]11], this paper assumes that ForceP constitutes a phasehood, and its head establishes a close relationship with Top and Foc via the FI operation. The force property in the finite clause is necessary for determining illocutionary force [6,7], and, if necessary, motivating merger operations to the edge of the clausal periphery [9,11]. In fact, it can be argued that the existence/absence of ForceP differentiates the grammaticality between (7) and (8) below.…”

Section: Basic Assumptions: Phase-based Cartographic Perspectivementioning

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A Minimalist Analysis of English Topicalization: A Phase-Based Cartographic Complementizer Phrase (CP) Perspective

Tanaka

2016

J UOEH

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: Under the basic tenet that syntactic derivation offers an optimal solution to both phonological realization and semantic interpretation of linguistic expression, the recent minimalist framework of syntactic theory claims that the basic unit for the derivation is equivalent to a syntactic propositional element, which is called a phase. In this analysis, syntactic derivation is assumed to proceed at phasal projections that include Complementizer Phrases (CP). However, there have been pointed out some empirical problems with respect to the failure of multiple occurrences of discourse-related elements in the CP domain. This problem can be easily overcome if the alternative approach in the recent minimalist perspective, which is called Cartographic CP analysis, is adopted, but this may raise a theoretical issue about the tension between phasality and four kinds of functional projections assumed in this analysis (Force Phrase (ForceP), Finite Phrase (FinP), Topic Phrase (TopP) and Focus Phrase (FocP)). This paper argues that a hybrid analysis with these two influential approaches can be proposed by claiming a reasonable assumption that syntactically requisite projections (i.e., ForceP and FinP) are phases and independently constitute a phasehood with relevant heads in the derivation. This then enables us to capture various syntactic properties of the Topicalization construction in English. Our proposed analysis, coupled with some additional assumptions and observations in recent minimalist studies, can be extended to incorporate peculiar properties in temporal/conditional adverbials and imperatives.

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Focus Fronting and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

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Expressive particle verbs and conditions on particle fronting

A Minimalist Analysis of English Topicalization: A Phase-Based Cartographic Complementizer Phrase (CP) Perspective

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