Foregrounding in English relative clauses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3988200
AutoresIlse Depraetere (0000-0003-3853-3876, Savoirs, Textes, Langage, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume34
Fascículo4
Páginas699-732
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.1996.34.4.699
OpenAlexW2006328582
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

The aim of this article is twofold: first, we want to delineate the defining criteria of the foreground. In order to list its necessary and sufficient characteristics, critical observations are made on the claim that the rule of foregrounding is an implicature and that foregrounding only occurs in pasttense main clauses. The issue whether it is (un)boundedness rather than (a)telicity that determines whether a situation belongs to the foreground is also dealt with. The second aim of this paper is to find out whether foregrounding is possible in (nonRestrictive relative clauses in English. Answering this question involves applying the criteria determined in part A to relative clauses. The observations made are based on corpus examples and on the results of an elicitation test

Foregrounding · Linguistics · Relative clause · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy