Scope Inversion under the Rise-Fall Contour in German
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4743413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manfred Krifka (0000-0002-9610-8352, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1196, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-112 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002438998553662 |
| OpenAlex | W2133255799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 21 |
A well-known but ill-explained fact about German is scope inversion under a rise-fall accent contour. The scope inversion in this reading can be derived from general principles of scope assignment and focus marking in German. In particular, focus is assigned to preverbal constituents, leading to syntactic configurations that result in ambiguous interpretations. This explanation must be couched in a framework of derivational economy that favors shorter derivations. The relevant comparison class is defined with respect to phonological form, not, as has been suggested for English, with respect to identity of semantic interpretation; this may be a general property of "free" word order languages
Focus (optics) · German · Inversion (geology) · Linguistics · Scope (computer science) · Semantic interpretation · Stress (linguistics) · Word order · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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