Exceptional Wide Scope

Endriss, Cornelia

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“…For being considered a predicate, information is expected not merely to be separated and novel but also to constitute the "main message". This is the case in the first appearance of 'Zoige' in (4), where the referent introduction clearly addresses a pending issue raised by Speaker A and as such updates the discourse state. In the case of referent introductions, the definition excludes pieces traditionally analysed as new topics, where novel information does introduce a referent but not as an updating, self-standing move.…”

Section: Pieces Of Information Predicates and Information Structuringmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…For example, this is the case with repetitive stance alignments, where emotional bonding is the actual goal of the communicative act even if these emotions are already known and evident to others (Ozerov 2018: 94). 3 Additional recurrent reasons for non-updating utterances are illustrated in (4), where Speaker B has introduced a toponym in his first Intonation Unit and then repeats it in the consecutive two units. ).…”

Section: Pieces Of Information Predicates and Information Structuringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, (67) exhibits a shift from one syntactic construction to a different one in the midst of the utterance. 4 Hence, dynamising the syntactic analysis offers a new perspective on the nature of these transient structures which contradict the generalisations and defy a coherent classification.…”

Section: Dynamic (Online) Syntax Referent Introduction and Discourse ...mentioning

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From sentential syntax to syntax of interaction

Ozerov

2023

J. of Speech Sci.

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The framework of syntactic analysis developed by Izre'el (2018, 2020) situates the simplest structure found in spoken data - the unipartite clause - at the core of its model. The implementation of this framework for the analysis of existential constructions in Modern Hebrew (Izre'el 2022) demonstrates how the unipartite analysis on presumably sentential structures allows us to remodel and bypass former research question, providing a new perspective and novel answers. This contribution attempts to follow up on this analysis and develop it further in an interactional, dynamic perspective. I propose that the discussed framework would additionally benefit from dispensing with other traditional models, which similarly originate in the bipartite view of sentence structure. Shifting away from categories of Information Structure and from the partitioning of information into topic vs. comment/focus and predicate can advance our understanding of language and discourse, while avoiding the pitfalls of problematic and poorly definable concepts. In this view, interlocutors do not structure their contributions or interpret others’ speech by identifying topics, comments, foci, or predicates. Instead, they navigate through the interactive discourse relying on low-level local communicative instructions which signal attention requirements, relevance, local discourse moves, interactionally structured discourse relations, epistemic management, emotive stance and more. Situating the analysis in the dynamic perspective of online syntax opens the way to a more refined understanding of the data, and further research questions.

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Section: Pieces Of Information Predicates and Information Structuringmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Pieces Of Information Predicates and Information Structuringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dynamic (Online) Syntax Referent Introduction and Discourse ...mentioning

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From sentential syntax to syntax of interaction

Ozerov

2023

J. of Speech Sci.

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“…To go one step further, I argue that plural indefinites such as most people are topics when they take wide scope over weishenme 'why'. That is, I believe that exceptional wide scope is a topic phenomenon (see also Endriss 2009). A topical reading is possible for quantifiers interpreted as plural indefinites, because all referring expressions that are individual-denoting may serve as topics under the right contextual conditions.…”

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Why-questions, topicality and intervention effects in Chinese

Jin

2016

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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This paper revisits intervention effects in Mandarin Chinese why-questions. I present new data showing that the ability for quantifiers to induce intervention hinges upon their monotonicity and their ability to be interpreted as topics. I then develop a semantic account that correlates topicality with monotone properties. Furthermore, I propose that why-questions in Chinese are idiosyncratic in that why directly merges at a high scope position that stays above a propositional argument. Combining the semantic idiosyncrasies of why-questions with the wide scope behaviors of topicality, I conclude that my account explains a wide range of intervention phenomena in terms of interpretation failure.

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“…FrameP thus consists of two speech acts: the illocutionary speech act of assertion, question, etc. contributed by the host clause (‘CP’ in (60), ‘ForceP’ in an articulated CP) and the secondary speech act of frame setting (Jacobs 1984, Endriss 2009, Ebert, Ebert & Hinterwimmer 2014). The speech act associated with FrameP is ‘secondary’ because it is parasitic on the speech act associated with the host clause.…”

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The syntax of peripheral adverbial clauses

Badan¹,

Haegeman²

2022

J. Ling.

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This paper explores the relation between the interpretations of while in English and mentre in Italian introducing adverbial clauses. Central while/mentre clauses express a temporal/aspectual modification of the proposition in the host clause. Peripheral while/mentre clauses make accessible a proposition from the discourse context enhancing the relevance of the host proposition. In one approach, clauses introduced by adversative while/mentre are analyzed as ‘less integrated’ with the associated clause than those introduced by temporal while/mentre. In another approach, adverbial clauses introduced by adversative while/mentre are considered not syntactically integrated with the host clause. This paper re-examines the nature of the syntactic integration of the adverbial clauses with the host clause, revealing a parallelism between the adversative peripheral while/mentre clauses and speaker-related sentential adverbs, leading to the conclusion that the non-integration analysis is not appropriate for this type of peripheral clauses and that any analysis must be aligned with that of the relevant non-clausal adverbials, supporting Frey (2018, 2020a, b). We also argue that central adverbial clauses recycled as speech event modifiers must be considered non-integrated. Concretely, we propose that they are integrated in discourse, through a specialized layer FrameP (Haegeman & Greco 2018).

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Exceptional Wide Scope

Cited by 29 publications

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From sentential syntax to syntax of interaction

From sentential syntax to syntax of interaction

Why-questions, topicality and intervention effects in Chinese

The syntax of peripheral adverbial clauses

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