Mirative fronting in German : Experimental evidence
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| Publication status: | Published |
| Author: | Trotzke, Andreas |
| Year of publication: | 2017 |
| Published in: | Review of Cognitive Linguistics ; 15 (2017), 2. - pp. 460-488. - ISSN 1877-9751. - eISSN 1877-976X |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.15.2.07tro |
| Summary: |
This paper presents an examination of syntactic constructions that are associated with the mirative interpretation of marking propositional content as being surprising or unexpected to the speaker. I report experimental evidence showing that certain options of marked word order in German are particularly suitable in mirative contexts. Cross-linguistic evidence offers good reasons to assume that mirative marking is also reflected in word order patterns. Having identified word order variation as one option to trigger mirative interpretations of utterances, I discuss the issue of distinguishing between information-structural and mirative effects of marked syntactic configurations.
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| Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
| Keywords: | mirativity, word order, information structure, acceptability study |
| Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
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TROTZKE, Andreas, 2017. Mirative fronting in German : Experimental evidence. In: Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 15(2), pp. 460-488. ISSN 1877-9751. eISSN 1877-976X. Available under: doi: 10.1075/rcl.15.2.07tro
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