Eintrag

Titel

The 'Separate Performative' Account of the German Right Dislocation

Personen

Maria Averintseva-Klisch

Jahr

2006

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Ort

Berlin

Seiten

15 - 28

In

Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung. 10th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik

Schlagwörter

Konstruktion
Semantik

Abstract

In my paper, I show that the so-called German right dislocation actually comprises two distinct constructions, which I label 'right dislocation proper' and 'afterthought'. These differ in their prosodic and syntactic properties, as well as in their discourse functions. The paper is primarily concerned with the right dislocation proper (RD). I present a semantic analysis of RD based on the 'separate performative' account of Potts (2004, 2005) and Portner (forthc.). This analysis allows a description of the semantic contribution of RD to its host sentence, as well as explaining certain semantic constraints on the kind of NP in the RD construction.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/33892