Foregrounding in English relative clauses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3988200
AutoresIlse Depraetere (0000-0003-3853-3876, Savoirs, Textes, Langage, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen34
Número4
Páginas699-732
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.1996.34.4.699
OpenAlexW2006328582
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

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