Prosody in Syntactic Encoding / / ed. by Gerrit Kentner, Joost Kremers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Anttila, Arto,; Butt, Miriam,; Bögel, Tina,; Carlson, Katy,; Dozat, Timothy,; Galbraith, Daniel,; Heim, Johannes,; Inaba, Jiro,; Jabeen, Farhat,; Jamieson, E.,; Kentner, Gerrit,; Kremers, Joost,; Shapiro, Naomi,; Struckmeier, Volker,; Tokizaki, Hisao,; Wierzba, Marta,; Wiltschko, Martina,
• HerausgeberIn: Kentner, Gerrit,; Kremers, Joost,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 573
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 334 p.)

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure?A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form.The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept “intonational morpheme” (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prosody in syntactic encoding -- Sentence stress in presidential speeches -- German case ambiguities at the interface: Production and comprehension -- Ambiguity resolution via the syntax-prosody interface: The case of kya ‘what’ in Urdu/Hindi -- Focus structure affects comparatives: Experimental and corpus work -- The ordering of interface mapping rules in German object fronting -- Interaction at the syntax–prosody interface -- Syntacticizing intonation? Tag questions in Glasgow Scots -- A prosodic constraint on prenominal modification -- Cartography cannot express scrambling restrictions – but interface-driven relational approaches can -- Head movement as a syntax-phonology interface phenomenon -- Index