Givenness, Avoidf and Other Constraints on the Placement of Accent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4569074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Schwarzschild (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-177 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Natural Language Semantics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-854X • E-ISSN: 1572-865X |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1023/a:1008370902407 |
| OpenAlex | W1566474193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 246 |
| References cited | 21 |
Argument (complex analysis · Ellipsis (linguistics · Information Structure · Stress · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Infelicity with homogeneity
Upstep and embedded register levels
Be Articulate
(De)accenting Definite Descriptions
Question/Answer Congruence and the Semantics of wh-phrases
Prosody and recursion in coordinate structures and beyond
The focus and prosodic structure of German Right Node Raising and Gapping
Expression of information structure in West Slavic
The semantics of sluicing
Verb phrase ellipsis
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure
Some Aspects of Optimality in Natural Language Interpretation
Ellipsis and the Structure of Discourse
On Shared Indefinite NPs in Coordinative Structures
The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers
Subject–Auxiliary Inversion
Focus Movement
VP‐Ellipsis
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody
Dutch scrambling and the nature of discourse templates
Swiping in Germanic
Reflexives, Reciprocals and Contrast
Definiteness, Uniqueness, and Maximality in Languages With and Without Articles
Wird Schon Stimmen! A Degree Operator Analysis of Schon
Focus Particles and Embedded Exhaustification
On the Form and Interpretation of Echo Wh-Questions
Solving Learnability Problems in the Acquisition of Semantics
All Focus is Contrastive
No Alternative to Alternatives
Verum Accent Is Verum, but Not Always Focus
Probabilistic relation between co-speech gestures, pitch accents and information status
Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
Superlative syntactic amalgams in an Iberian Spanish dialect
Polar response particles in French as remnants of ellipsis
Focus projection need not be based on pitch accents
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential
Modality force and syntax in an understudied class of reduced why-questions in English
Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese
Verum focus is verum, not focus
Integrating relational and intentional theories of discourse coherence
Acoustic correlates of Givenness in Icelandic
How focus particles and accents affect attachment
The Information-Structural Status of Adjuncts
Linking French wh -in-situ and context
Processing of linguistic focus depends on contrastive alternatives
Operator focus in discourse and grammar
Deferred reference across categories
Focus intervention, multiple association, and the unity of focus and wh alternatives
Even in presupposition denials
Chorophorics in the Aquilan Dialect
How Much Room for Discourse in Imperative? The Lens of Interface on English, Italian and Spanish
Verb‐Echo Answers Do Not Involve Head Movement in Japanese
Wh‐Interrogatives In Ancient Greek Disentangling Focus‐ And Wh‐Movement
The Syntax of Hoo ‐Resultatives in Taiwanese Southern Min
Nominalized Clauses and Discourse‐givenness
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
Scope Without Scope Economy in Null Argument Constructions
Caroline Féry (2017). Intonation and prosodic structure. (Key Topics in Phonology.) Cambridge
Parallel copying in dislocation copying
Toward a unified theory of wh-in-situ and islands
Intervention effects and wh-construals
Maximal backgrounding = focus without (necessary) focus encoding
Topicality in Sentence Focus utterances
Interpreting focus
Focus suppositions
Interpreting focus again
Focus Interpretations
A heuristic mathematical approach for modeling constraint cumulativity
Focus on identity – the dark side of zìjĭ
Explaining ellipsis without identity
Evidence for deletion in as-parentheticals
Scalar Additive Operators in the Languages of Europe
The centrality of metrical structure in signaling information structure
Convergent evidence for categorial change in French
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Verum in Gitksan
Topicalization and object drop in Jordanian Arabic
St’át'imcets intonation contours
Focus, exhaustivity and existence in Akan, Ga and Ngamo
Polarity reversals under sluicing
Putting oughts together
Different again
The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order
Understanding focus
Puzzling response particles
Focus marking in Kikuyu
Questions and focus
On the syntax and pragmatics interface
What’s New (and What’s Given) in the Theory of Focus
Notions of focus anaphoricity
Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates
Focus presuppositions
Indirect truth marking via backgrounding
The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint
Connectedness as a constraint on exhaustification
Prolegomena to Music Semantics
Neg-Raising and Neg movement
Children interpret disjunction as conjunction
Focus in Generative Grammar
On the Grammar and Semantics of Sentence Accents
Syntax and semantics of questions
Semantic Interpretation In Generative Grammar
The Meaning of Intonational Contours in the Interpretation of Discourse
What's New? A Semantic Perspective on Sentence Accent
Focus Ambiguities
Deaccentuation of Words Representing ‘Given’ Information
Notes on transitivity and theme in English
Intonation and the assessment of information 1
Focus, mode and the nucleus
The ingredients of definiteness and the definiteness effect
A theory of focus interpretation
The notion of 'givenness' and its relations to presupposition and to theme
The linguistic realization of information packaging
Aspects of English Sentence Stress
| Unique citing works | 246 |
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| Citations per year | 9,46 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 236 |