发表于2025-01-07
The Meaning of Topic and Focus 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Daniel Buring's study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centered on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents--Focus and Topic--is developed. The account is based on Montagovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment.</P>
The Meaning of Topic and Focus 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书