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Swedish as a [+Continuity] language : left-edge prosody and right-edge morphosyntax

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Johan Brandtler
  • David Håkansson
  • Stefan Huber
  • Eva Klingvall

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
Swedish and French avoid placing focused constituents at the left periphery of sentences. This has previously been suggested to be due to phonological factors. Here, we develop this idea and argue that the reason for avoiding focus at the left edge in these languages is the existence of syntactically related prosodic prominences in the beginning of utterances. Initial focal accents would overlap with the syntactically related accents, forcing a suboptimal prosodic structure. Further, we provide evidence for such a left-edge boundary tone in Swedish main clauses, as well as for a complementary strong tendency in Swedish to associate the right edge of sentences with focus.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

333-341

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Discourse and grammar : a festschrift in honor of Valéria Molnár

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Lund University (Media-Tryck)

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • boundary-tone
  • left periphery
  • focus
  • C-continuity
  • Swedish
  • prosody

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-637-0411-6