Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

by Trotzke, Andreas; Villalba, Xavier

• ISBN13: 9780198871217
• ISBN10: 019887121X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-10-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andreas Trotzke, Au?erplanm??iger Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz,Xavier Villalba, Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona

Andreas Trotzke is Au?erplanm??iger Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His areas of expertise include pragmatics, the syntax-pragmatics interface, psycholinguistics, and language education, and his research has been published in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, and Lingua. He is the General Editor of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics (Benjamins), the editor of numerous volumes, and the author of three monographs, of which the most recent is The Grammar of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension (de Gruyter, 2017).

Xavier Villalba is Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics and member of the Centre de Ling??stica Te?rica at the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona. His research interests include the interface between syntax and information structure, particularly right-dislocation, and between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, especially exclamative and existential sentences. His work has appeared in journals such as Discourse Processes, Journal of Pragmatics, and Lingua, and in edited volumes from Routledge, Benjamins, and de Gruyter.

Table of Contents

1. Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and frameworks, Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba
2. On classifiers and affect in the nominal domain: Organizing 'disorganization', Norbert Corver
3. On the illocutionary force of exclamatives and non-canonical questions in German and Italian, Roland Hinterh?lzl and Nicola Munaro
4. Function words and polarity: The case of negation, Matteo Greco
5. Mirative implicatures at the syntax-semantics interface: A surprising association and an unexpected move, Silvio Cruschina and Valentina Bianchi
6. Expressive insubordination: A cross-linguistic study on that-exclamatives, Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba
7. Connectors as emotive signs: Expressivity in the right sentence periphery, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
8. Expressive questions in English and French: What the hell versus Mais qu'est-ce que, Agn?s Celle, Anne Jugnet, and Laure Lansari
9. The Spanish 'mirative future', Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti
10. A comparison of expressives and miratives, Jessica Rett
11. Cross-linguistic variations in the interpretation of tense in mirative sentences: A view from Japanese mirative expressions nante/towai, Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada
12. French reason-comment ('how') questions: A view from prosody, Lisa Brunetti, Hiyon Yoo, Lucia Tovena, and Rachel Albar