Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017. vi, 334 pp.
Anna-Maria De Cesare
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna-Maria De Cesare plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 To be or not to be focus adverbials? A corpus-driven study of It. anche in spontaneous spoken Italian When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 203–238 | Chapter
The goal of this study is to cast new light on one of the main defining properties of focus adverbials, namely their interaction with the focus structure of the sentence. Following the framework known as Language into Act Theory, we describe the interaction between It. anche and focal information,… read more
2020 Domain adverbials in the news: A corpus-based contrastive study of English, German, French, Italian and Spanish Languages in Contrast 20:1, pp. 31–57 | Article
This article examines the functional category of domain adverbials (DAs), which arose fairly recently in the European languages and is claimed to occur frequently in the written press. In order to better understand this category, we investigate the form, use and meaning of DAs in English, German,… read more
2018 French adverbial cleft sentences: Empirical and theoretical issues Non-prototypical clefts, Karssenberg, Lena, Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy, Stefania Marzo and Ana Drobnjakovic (eds.), pp. 86–120 | Article
The goal of this contribution is to deepen our knowledge of French cleft sentences through the study of a special category of clefts called adverbial clefts. The issues that we will address concern their form, discourse frequency and boundaries with resembling structures. In order to shed light… read more
2018 Italian sentence adverbs in the left periphery: Modeling their functional properties in online daily newspapers Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages, Borreguero Zuloaga, Margarita, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große (eds.), pp. 96–120 | Article
This contribution describes the functional properties of Italian sentence adverbs (SAs) occurring in the left periphery, i.e. in clause initial position, on the basis of a corpus-based analysis of articles drawn from online daily newspapers. We show that a qualitative analysis of the data found… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 255–286 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to offer a multi-layered analysis of adverbial clefts in Italian, French, and English. In particular, we intend to offer a corpus-based study of the syntactic category of the cleft constituent, its semantic type and, finally, the information structure of adverbial clefts.… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Mapping additivity through translation: From French aussi to Italian anche and back in the Europarl-direct corpus Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, De Cesare, Anna-Maria and Cecilia Andorno (eds.), pp. 157–200 | Chapter
Many languages have an overabundant set of additive focus adverbs (AFAs), whose differences are mostly investigated in semantic (e.g. scalarity) or syntactic (scope phenomena and restrictions for specific domains of association) terms. The present study adopts a discourse perspective on the issue,… read more
2017 Introduction: On ‘additivity’ as a multidisciplinary research field Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, De Cesare, Anna-Maria and Cecilia Andorno (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2015 Defining Focusing Modifiers in a cross-linguistic perspective: A discussion based on English, German, French and Italian Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld (eds.), pp. 47–82 | Article
The goal of this chapter is to reconnect with the research agenda of the “classic” studies on the so-called Focusing Modifiers (such as E. also, only, even) by tackling questions related to the intension (i.e. the defining properties) and the extension (i.e. the inventories) of the category. Since… read more
2014 The contribution of the Basel model to the description of polyfunctional discourse markers: The case of It. anche, Fr. aussi, and Sp. también Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador (ed.), pp. 55–94 | Article
The goal of the present study is to illustrate the benefits of using a model of discourse units in describing and explaining the use of polyfunctional discourse markers. Specifically, the aim is to show that the so-called “Basel Model” of paragraph segmentation is a powerful tool in describing and… read more
2006 Review of Aijmer & Stenström (2004): Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora Studies in Language 30:4, pp. 807–812 | Review
1978 Les règles et le roi XIV Congresso Internationale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza: Napoli, 15–20 Aprile 1974. ATTI, Varvaro, Alberto (ed.), pp. V-513–V-524 | Article