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| Autor/in | Kaltenböck, Gunther |
|---|---|
| Titel | English comment clauses: position, prosody, and scope. |
| Quelle | In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 34 (2009) 1, S. 51-77 |
| Beigaben | Abbildungen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0171-5410 |
| Schlagwörter | Empirische Forschung; Gesprochene Sprache; Korpusanalyse; Satz (Ling); Semantik; Sprachgebrauch; Syntax; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Britisches Englisch; Englischunterricht; Prosodie |
| Abstract | The paper offers a study of the use and communicative functions of comment clauses (CCs) such as "I think" or "it seems" in spoken English. Based on an analysis of 830 instances retrieved from the spoken section of the British component of the International Corpus of English, it is shown that the scope of CCs may not only be over an entire host clause, as is commonly assumed, but may also single out a phrasal constituent. Such phrasal scope is signalled by means of prosodic binding of the CC to the left or right and/or positioning in the Host Construction. In contrast to clausal scope CCs, which function as epistemic shields (Prince et al. 1982), phrasal scope CCs function like approcimators (ibid.). A third possible function identified is that of pleonastic uses of CCs. This structural of 'filler' function can be observed especially with high-frequency CCs which are prosodically integrated into the Host. The three different functions can be explained as different stages in an ongoing process of grammaticalisation of CCs away from epistemic markers to pleonastic structuring devices, with concomitant semantic bleaching and prosodic integration. (Verlag, adapt.). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2022/3 |
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