Parenthetical Verbs / / ed. by Stefan Schneider, Julie Glikman, Mathieu Avanzi.
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. Method...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
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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