Parenthetical Verbs / / ed. by Stefan Schneider, Julie Glikman, Mathieu Avanzi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Avanzi, Mathieu,; Glikman, Julie,; Schneider, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 557
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. It covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its empirical orientation: Most contributions are based on data from experiments or corpora.

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. The initial theoretical section contains, among others, two contributions presenting diametrically opposed analyses of the syntax of parenthetical verbs. Although (synchronic) syntax pervades the volume, other analytical levels and approaches are also given weight: The second section provides insights into the historical and ontogenetic development of parenthetical verbs, while the third section deals with prosody and prosody-syntax or prosody-semantics mappings. The volume covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Turkish), some of which are rarely taken into consideration when dealing with parentheticals. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its strong empirical orientation: With few exceptions, the contributions are based on data from experiments or from corpora (historical, contemporary, diachronic, synchronic, oral, written, child, adult).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: Theoretical Issues -- Parentheticals and the grammar of complementation -- On theticals: A “rootless” analysis of I think -- Speaker and quote reduced parenthetical clauses -- On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals -- Section II: Diachronic and ontogenetic development -- An approach to parenthetical courtesy markers in requests in Late Modern English -- Origin and development of French parenthetical verbs -- Ontogenetic paths to the parenthetical construction -- Section III: Prosody and its interfaces -- Epistemic Parenthetical Verb Phrases: CCommand, Semantic Scope and Prosodic Phrasing -- Are reporting clauses special cases of parentheticals? -- Mapping to prosody: Not all parentheticals are alike -- The Vocative in European Portuguese: Prosodic Effects of its Position in the Sentence -- Index