On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses

Koev, Todor

On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses

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2012

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Logic, language and meaning : 18th Amsterdam colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19 - 21, 2011 ; revised selected papers / Aloni, Maria et al. (ed.). - Berlin : Springer, 2012. - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 7218). - pp. 401-410. - ISSN 0302-9743. - eISSN 1611-3349. - ISBN 978-3-642-31481-0

Abstract

Existing semantic theories of appositive relative clauses (ARCs) assume that ARCs contribute asserted but not at-issue content (Böer & Lycan [4], Bach [3], Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet [5], Potts [13], AnderBois et al. [2], Murray [12]). In this paper I demonstrate that the information status of ARCs depends on their linear position in the clause: clause-medial ARCs are not at-issue whereas clause-final ARCs can behave like regular at-issue content. I propose a uniform one-dimensional semantics under which ARCs are conjuncts that can acquire at-issue status if the issue raised by the main clause has been terminated. The idea is formally implemented in Dynamic Predicate Logic (Groenendijk & Stokhof [9]) enriched with propositional variables (AnderBois et al. [2]).

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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appositive relative clauses, at-issue/not-at-issue content

Conference

18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Dec 19, 2011 - Dec 21, 2011, Amsterdam

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KOEV, Todor, 2012. On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses. 18th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, Dec 19, 2011 - Dec 21, 2011. In: ALONI, Maria, ed. and others. Logic, language and meaning : 18th Amsterdam colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19 - 21, 2011 ; revised selected papers. Berlin:Springer, pp. 401-410. ISSN 0302-9743. eISSN 1611-3349. ISBN 978-3-642-31481-0. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_41

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@inproceedings{Koev2012Infor-51731,
  year={2012},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_41},
  title={On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses},
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  isbn={978-3-642-31481-0},
  issn={0302-9743},
  publisher={Springer},
  address={Berlin},
  series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  booktitle={Logic, language and meaning : 18th Amsterdam colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19 - 21, 2011 ; revised selected papers},
  pages={401--410},
  editor={Aloni, Maria},
  author={Koev, Todor}
}

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