Talk by Corinna Langer, Wednesday 23 October, 4-6 pm

by Tina Bögel Comment Closed
The next talk in the phonology colloquium will be by Corinna Langer on "Focus sensitivity and prosodic structure in Hungarian - A case study on the additive particle is" (Room: IG 4.301). Everybody is welcome! — Abstract In this talk, I present a case study on the Hungarian additive particle is `also, too'. It is an investigation on the (syntax-)semantics-prosody interface, looking at five different usages of the additive particle, the readings and interpretations it can occur with, and their relation to the prosodic pattern of the clause. Following Balogh (to appear), the additive paticle is analyzed as being associated with the pragmatic focus (Lambrecht 1994) of the sentence. In this study, I show that not all of the five usages are focus sensitive and present the prosodic patterns of the different usages and the different possible focus domains of the focus sensitive readings....
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Ab- und Antrittsvorlesungen / farewell and inaugural lecture Phonologie

by Anke Himmelreich Comment Closed
On July 3rd we celebrated Prof. Caroline Féry's retirement at the end of september and Prof. Frank Kügler's appointment as her successor. It was a wonderful and festive event, and here you can find a collection of short pieces for Caroline written by various friends and colleagues that were presented to her at the event: Tweets 'n Greets for Caroline Féry. Caroline has contributed immensely to the success of the Institute in Frankfurt and we are all very lucky, both professionally and personally, to have been her colleagues, so: thank you, Caroline!...
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