Focus on Additivity
Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
Editors
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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: On ‘additivity’ as a multidisciplinary research fieldAnna-Maria De Cesare | pp. 1–20
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Part I. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a typological and historical perspective
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Chapter 1. Syntax and semantics of additive focus markers from a cross-linguistic perspective: A tentative assessment of the state of the artEkkehard König | pp. 23–44
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Chapter 2. Meaning both ‘also’ and ‘only’? : The intriguing polysemy of Old Italian pur(e)Davide Ricca | pp. 45–76
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Part II. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a semantic, prosodic and pragmatic perspective
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Chapter 3. On the distribution of additive focus particles addirittura and perfino/persino in ItalianVahram Atayan | pp. 79–106
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Chapter 4. French additive particle aussi : Does prosody matter?Sandra Benazzo and Cédric Patin | pp. 107–136
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Chapter 5. Processing additivity in Spanish : incluso vs. ademásLaura Nadal, Inés Recio Fernández, Martha Rudka and Óscar Loureda | pp. 137–154
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Part III. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a discourse-oriented perspective
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Chapter 6. Mapping additivity through translation : From French aussi to Italian anche and back in the Europarl-direct corpusCecilia Andorno and Anna-Maria De Cesare | pp. 157–200
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Chapter 7. The scalar operator even and its German equivalents : Pragmatic and syntactic factors determining the use of auch, selbst and sogar in the Europarl corpusVolker Gast | pp. 202–235
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Part IV. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a language contact perspective
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Chapter 8. Additive focus particles in German-speaking learners of Italian as L2Irene Caloi | pp. 237–264
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Chapter 9. Additive relations in L2 French: Contrasting acquisitional trends of Italian and Russian learnersSandra Benazzo and Katia Paykin | pp. 265–310
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Chapter 10. Ënghe, ence and also anche : Ladin and Italian additive particles in language contact situationIlaria Fiorentini | pp. 311–330
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Focusing modifiers index | pp. 331–332
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General index | p. 333
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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. 
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BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics