Beschreibung:
Büring, Daniel
Based on examples from German and English, this study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics.
Chapter 1 Basic Assumptions; Chapter 2 Focus and Discourse; Chapter 3 The 59th Street Bridge Accent; Chapter 4 Quantifiers as S-Topics; Chapter 5 The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy; Chapter 6 The Universal Disambiguator; Chapter 7 Summary;