Parentheticals
Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.
Nicole Dehé
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicole Dehé plays a role.
Titles
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.
Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Phonetics | Semantics | Syntax
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
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
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
2007 Parentheticals: An introduction Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article