Sentential form and prosodic structure of Catalan

✍ Scribed by Ingo Feldhausen

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Series: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 168
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and structures involving clitic left- and right-dislocations. The results show variation in phrasing that depends on syntactic factors and non-syntactic factors such as topic-hood and prosodic binarity. The theoretical section uses Stochastic Optimality Theory to model the variation and frequency distributi. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions for Glosses and Translations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Fundamental aspects of Catalan intonation; Chapter 3. Phrasing patterns in Catalan SVO structures; Chapter 4. Syntactic aspects of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation; Chapter 5. Prosodic phrasing of Catalan clitic left- and clitic right-dislocation; Chapter 6. Left-dislocations and preverbal subjects; Chapter 7. Conclusion and outlook; References; Appendices; Index.
Abstract:

A monograph that presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. It examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and structures involving clitic left- and right-dislocations. Read more...