Catalan focus markers as discourse particles
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| Publication status: | Published |
| URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1iddcbqsy98mz6 |
| Author: | Trotzke, Andreas; Mayol, Laia |
| Year of publication: | 2021 |
| Published in: | Journal of Linguistics ; 2021. - Cambridge University Press. - ISSN 0022-2267. - eISSN 1469-7742 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000481 |
| Summary: |
In this paper, we investigate focus markers in Catalan that can take on discourse-particle readings. We focus on two Catalan elements that have not been studied from a formal linguistics perspective so far: the focus adverb precisament ‘precisely’ and the focus particle també ‘also’. We demonstrate that these elements feature interpretations that we identify as a type of meaning familiar from discourse particles in languages other than Catalan. After having outlined the basic distribution and interpretative effects of these particles, we analyze the semantics and pragmatics of precisament and també within a probabilistic argumentative framework, and we then conclude the paper by comparing the observations and analyses we have pointed out for Catalan to other languages that feature a discourse-particle reading of similar focus markers.
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| Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
| Keywords: | Catalan, discourse particles, focus adverbs, focus particles, pragmatics, semantics |
| Link to License: | Attribution 4.0 International |
| Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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TROTZKE, Andreas, Laia MAYOL, 2021. Catalan focus markers as discourse particles. In: Journal of Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 0022-2267. eISSN 1469-7742. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0022226720000481
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