Pragmatic Properties of Certain German and English Left Peripheral Constructions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3989313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Werner Frey (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2005.43.1.89 |
| OpenAlex | W1971056716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 11 |
The article discusses various left peripheral constructions in German and English, which are often considered to be topic constructions. The article demonstrates, however, that only one of the constructions under review obligatorily marks a topic in the "aboutness" sense. It also discusses how the constructions behave with respect to some discourse properties which are often related to topicality: referential linking to the preceding discourse, promotion of a nontopic to a topic, thematic continuity. The article describes which constructions exhibit which discourse properties and shows that quite similar constructions behave rather dierently with respect to these properties. The article's findings also cast serious doubt on certain common assumptions about how left peripheral constructions in the two languages correspond to each other
German · Linguistics · Sociology · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
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| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |