Thorstein Fretheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 736946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thorstein Fretheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thorstein |
| FAMILY NAME | Fretheim |
| SIGNATURE | FRETHEIM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The same (as what?)
This paper adopts a radical contextualist approach to the reference of definite descriptions that contain the English expression the same, either without a complement or with a complement in the form of a head noun and/or a comparison phrase of the type as X. It is argued that definite descriptions which contain the same do not refer to a unique entity, despite the fact that the result of a comprehension test carried out seems to give some suppor…
A pragmatic perspective on the phonological values of utterance-final boundary tones in East Norwegian intonation
The intonation system of East Norwegian (EN) is such that a statement often sounds more like a question to a non-native listener. While it may be easy for a phonetically trained person to hear that a final pitch movement of an EN utterance is either a rise to a high, or a fall to a low target tone, such a perceived difference has no phonological significance unless it is exploited systematically for a communicative purpose. Imperative sentences a…
Token-reflexive, anaphoric and deictic functions of ‘here’
There are basically three ways in which the reference of a token of the English proximal spatial indexical here and corresponding terms in other languages can be resolved in the context-dependent, pragmatic phase of the addressee's determination of the propositional content of an utterance that contains this adverbial adjunct. ‘Here’ may refer reflexively to the place of utterance, including minimally the spot occupied by the speaker (token-refle…
The metarepresentational use of main clause phenomena in embedded clauses
In Norwegian complex sentences with a main clause and an embedded complement clause, linguistic main clause features, whether syntactic or intonational, must converge, that is, their syntactic domain must be the same string for all, either the total sentence structure for all co-occurring main clause features or just the complement clause for all such features. Violation of this convergence constraint leads to ungrammaticality. This article addre…
Introduction
English then and Norwegian da / så compared
An analysis of the English adverb then is suggested, which treats it as ambiguous, encoding two distinct meanings, one of which is anaphoric and corresponds to the meaning of the Norwegian temporal adverb da , and the other is non-anaphoric and corresponds to the meaning of the Norwegian temporal adverb så . The paper challenges the commonly made assumption that cases of supposed ambiguity which exist cross-linguistically might be better reanalyz…
In Defence of Monosemy
Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude
In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a given proposition represents a true state of affairs. This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicat…
Constraining Explicit and Implicit Content by Means of a Norwegian Scalar Particle
This study is a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Norwegian right-detached particle så , which occurs exclusively with sentence fragments. The framework of description is relevance theory, a cognitively based theory of communication whose objective is to account for how we are able to understand utterances and to make ourselves understood, in spite of the fact that the linguistic code that we use vastly underdetermines what we mean, and even…
Reference and Referent Accessibility
Lexical properties and pragmatic implications of some markers of temporal succession and simultaneity
Why Norwegian Right-Dislocated Phrases are not Afterthoughts
A right-dislocated phrase in Norwegian is either a full lexical phrase of the canonical sort, which is richer in semantic content than its coreferential intraclausal partner, or it is a pronoun which adds no semantic content that was not already present in the coreferential intraclausal phrase. A frequently occurring subcategory of right dislocation in Norwegian involves a lexical phrase in situ and a coreferential dislocated pronoun. While an af…
The effect of intonation on a type of scalar implicature
Terminal Rise and Rise-fall Tunes in East Norwegian Intonation
This paper argues that there is a phonological opposition between falling and non-falling utterance-terminal tunes in East Norwegian intonation. East Norwegian intonational foci are characterized by a rising pitch movement and there is no way that you can raise the pitch even further to express “rising intonation”. What you obtain instead is a distinction between a focal rise followed by a terminal fall in pitch and a focal rise without a subsequ…
Phonetically Low Tone–Phonologically High Tone, and Vice Versa
The phonological Highs and Lows of prosodic feet in East Norwegian utterances do not always coincide temporally with the phonetic Highs and Lows associated with the pitch contours characteristic of Accent 1 and Accent 2. This paper accounts for two distinct types of discrepancy between actual pitch level and perceived pitch level, i.e. phonological pitch level, in certain prosodically well-defined cases where pitch peaks appear to occur “too late…
Intonational Phrasing in Norwegian
This paper outlines a model designed for the description of East Norwegian sencetece intonation. It is argued that there is a specific kind of intonational structure in Norwegian that is restricted to assertions and which will therefore normally be perceived as a prosodic clue to the indentification of assertive clauses, whether embedded ro syntactically independent
Intonational Phrasing in Norwegian
This paper outlines a model designed for the description of East Norwegian sencetece intonation. It is argued that there is a specific kind of intonational structure in Norwegian that is restricted to assertions and which will therefore normally be perceived as a prosodic clue to the indentification of assertive clauses, whether embedded ro syntactically independent
Phonetically Low Tone–Phonologically High Tone, and Vice Versa
The phonological Highs and Lows of prosodic feet in East Norwegian utterances do not always coincide temporally with the phonetic Highs and Lows associated with the pitch contours characteristic of Accent 1 and Accent 2. This paper accounts for two distinct types of discrepancy between actual pitch level and perceived pitch level, i.e. phonological pitch level, in certain prosodically well-defined cases where pitch peaks appear to occur “too late…
Terminal Rise and Rise-fall Tunes in East Norwegian Intonation
This paper argues that there is a phonological opposition between falling and non-falling utterance-terminal tunes in East Norwegian intonation. East Norwegian intonational foci are characterized by a rising pitch movement and there is no way that you can raise the pitch even further to express “rising intonation”. What you obtain instead is a distinction between a focal rise followed by a terminal fall in pitch and a focal rise without a subsequ…
The effect of intonation on a type of scalar implicature
Why Norwegian Right-Dislocated Phrases are not Afterthoughts
A right-dislocated phrase in Norwegian is either a full lexical phrase of the canonical sort, which is richer in semantic content than its coreferential intraclausal partner, or it is a pronoun which adds no semantic content that was not already present in the coreferential intraclausal phrase. A frequently occurring subcategory of right dislocation in Norwegian involves a lexical phrase in situ and a coreferential dislocated pronoun. While an af…
Lexical properties and pragmatic implications of some markers of temporal succession and simultaneity
Reference and Referent Accessibility
Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude
In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a given proposition represents a true state of affairs. This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicat…
Constraining Explicit and Implicit Content by Means of a Norwegian Scalar Particle
This study is a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Norwegian right-detached particle så , which occurs exclusively with sentence fragments. The framework of description is relevance theory, a cognitively based theory of communication whose objective is to account for how we are able to understand utterances and to make ourselves understood, in spite of the fact that the linguistic code that we use vastly underdetermines what we mean, and even…
In Defence of Monosemy
English then and Norwegian da / så compared
An analysis of the English adverb then is suggested, which treats it as ambiguous, encoding two distinct meanings, one of which is anaphoric and corresponds to the meaning of the Norwegian temporal adverb da , and the other is non-anaphoric and corresponds to the meaning of the Norwegian temporal adverb så . The paper challenges the commonly made assumption that cases of supposed ambiguity which exist cross-linguistically might be better reanalyz…
The metarepresentational use of main clause phenomena in embedded clauses
In Norwegian complex sentences with a main clause and an embedded complement clause, linguistic main clause features, whether syntactic or intonational, must converge, that is, their syntactic domain must be the same string for all, either the total sentence structure for all co-occurring main clause features or just the complement clause for all such features. Violation of this convergence constraint leads to ungrammaticality. This article addre…
Introduction
Token-reflexive, anaphoric and deictic functions of ‘here’
There are basically three ways in which the reference of a token of the English proximal spatial indexical here and corresponding terms in other languages can be resolved in the context-dependent, pragmatic phase of the addressee's determination of the propositional content of an utterance that contains this adverbial adjunct. ‘Here’ may refer reflexively to the place of utterance, including minimally the spot occupied by the speaker (token-refle…
A pragmatic perspective on the phonological values of utterance-final boundary tones in East Norwegian intonation
The intonation system of East Norwegian (EN) is such that a statement often sounds more like a question to a non-native listener. While it may be easy for a phonetically trained person to hear that a final pitch movement of an EN utterance is either a rise to a high, or a fall to a low target tone, such a perceived difference has no phonological significance unless it is exploited systematically for a communicative purpose. Imperative sentences a…
The same (as what?)
This paper adopts a radical contextualist approach to the reference of definite descriptions that contain the English expression the same, either without a complement or with a complement in the form of a head noun and/or a comparison phrase of the type as X. It is argued that definite descriptions which contain the same do not refer to a unique entity, despite the fact that the result of a comprehension test carried out seems to give some suppor…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Norwegian (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Utterance (6 works) · History (4 works)