Nicole Dehé

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicole Dehé plays a role.

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Parentheticals

Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation

Nicole Dehé

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 305 pp.

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Dehé, Nicole and Anne Wichmann 2010 The multifunctionality of epistemic parentheticals in discourse: Prosodic cues to the semantic-pragmatic boundary Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 1–28 | Article

The aim of this study is to identify the relation between the interpretation of epistemic parentheticals in discourse and their prosodic realisation. Data drawn from a corpus of British English speech suggests that epistemic parentheticals (comment clauses such as I think, I believe) convey a… read more

Dehé, Nicole and Anne Wichmann 2010 Sentence-initial I think (that) and I believe (that): Prosodic evidence for uses as main clause, comment clause and discourse marker Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 36–74 | Article

Sentence-initial pronoun-verb combinations such as I think, I believe are ambiguous between main clause use on the one hand and adverbial or discourse use on the other hand. We approach the topic from a prosodic perspective. Based on corpus data from spoken British English the prosodic patterns of… read more

Dehé, Nicole 2007 The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), pp. 261–284 | Article

It is a common assumption in previous research on parentheticals that syntactic and prosodic parentheses coincide such that strings that are parentheticals in the syntax are marked by certain defining prosodic characteristics in speech. Based on the analysis of a set of spontaneous British English… read more

Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova 2007 Parentheticals: An introduction Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article