Overview

This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements can, however, no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents, but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data, the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents, including discourse markers, free adjuncts, left dislocands, insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives, investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents, their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings, also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.

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Author:   Gunther Kaltenbock (University of Vienna) ,  Evelien Keizer (University of Vienna) ,  Arne Lohmann (University of Vienna)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   178
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9789027259431

ISBN 10:   9027259437
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   03 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Extra-clausal constituents: An overview (by Kaltenbock, Gunther); 2. Part 1. The multifunctionality of ECCs; 3. Pragmatic markers as constructions. The case of anyway (by Aijmer, Karin); 4. The (the) fact is (that) construction in English and Dutch (by Keizer, Evelien); 5. Planning what to say: Uh and um among the pragmatic markers (by Tottie, Gunnel); 6. Part 2. The diachronic development of ECCs; 7. Mirativity and rhetorical structure: The development and prosody of disjunct and anaphoric adverbials with 'no' wonder (by Gentens, Caroline); 8. From clause to adverb: On the history of maybe (by Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose); 9. Towards a unified constructional characterisation of the nonfinite periphery: On verbal free adjuncts and absolutes in English (by Bouzada-Jabois, Carla); 10. Left-dislocated strings in Modern English epistolary prose: A comparison with contemporary spoken Left Dislocation (by Tizon-Couto, David); 11. Part 3. ECCs in bilingual settings; 12. Extra-clausal constituents and language contact: The case of discourse markers (by Heine, Bernd); 13. The role of extra-clausal constituents in bilingual speech: The emerging of regular patterns in a bilingual corpus (by Goria, Eugenio); 14. Part 4. ECCs: a grammar of their own?; 15. The syntax of confirmationals: A neo-performative analysis (by Wiltschko, Martina); 16. On the grammatical status of insubordinate if-clauses (by Kaltenbock, Gunther); 17. Intensifying adverbs 'outside the clause': A cognitive analysis (by Haselow, Alexander); 18. Aspects of discourse marker sequencing: Empirical challenges and theoretical implications (by Lohmann, Arne); 19. Index

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