Cleft exhaustivity: a unified approach to inter-speaker and cross-linguistic variability

In this dissertation a series of experimental studies are presented which demonstrate that the exhaustive inference of focus-background it-clefts in English and their cross-linguistic counterparts in Akan, French, and German is neither robust nor systematic. The inter-speaker and cross-linguistic va...

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1. Verfasser: De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Potsdam [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:In this dissertation a series of experimental studies are presented which demonstrate that the exhaustive inference of focus-background it-clefts in English and their cross-linguistic counterparts in Akan, French, and German is neither robust nor systematic. The inter-speaker and cross-linguistic variability is accounted for with a discourse-pragmatic approach to cleft exhaustivity, in which -- following Pollard & Yasavul 2016 -- the exhaustive inference is derived from an interaction with another layer of meaning, namely, the existence presupposition encoded in clefts
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