Focus on Additivity

Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages

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The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words which have been labeled, among many others, Additive Focusing Modifiers (FMs). The chapters gathered in this volume deal with the syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic properties of Additive FMs and new lines of research on these items are pursued, including (i) the historical development of Additive FMs and the use of these forms in older stages of the European languages; (ii) the pragmatic and sociolinguistic properties of Additive FMs, in particular of the functions they play in discourse and their distribution in different language varieties; (iii) the processing of Additive FMs by adults, in particular by relying on reading experiments involving eye tracking and self-paced reading; (iv) the use of Additive FMs in language contact situations and (v) the acquisition of Additive FMs by different learner groups.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017.  vi, 334 pp.
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Casalicchio, Jan & Manuela Caterina Moroni
2023. The Syntax–Pragmatics Interface in Heritage Languages: The Use of anche (“Also”) in German Heritage Speakers of Italian. Languages 8:2  pp. 104 ff. DOI logo
Sandra, Benazzo, Dimroth Christine & Fabian Santiago
2021. Additive Linking in L2 French Discourse by German Learners: Syntactic Embedding and Intonation Patterns. Languages 6:1  pp. 20 ff. DOI logo
Favaro, Marco
2020. Chapter 4. From focus marking to illocutionary modification. In Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles [Studies in Language Companion Series, 213],  pp. 112 ff. DOI logo

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CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

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LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
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