Focus on Additivity

Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages

Editors

Anna-Maria De Cesare | University of Basel

Cecilia Andorno | University of Torino

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The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words which have been labeled, among many others, Additive Focusing Modifiers (FMs). The chapters gathered in this volume deal with the syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic properties of Additive FMs and new lines of research on these items are pursued, including (i) the historical development of Additive FMs and the use of these forms in older stages of the European languages; (ii) the pragmatic and sociolinguistic properties of Additive FMs, in particular of the functions they play in discourse and their distribution in different language varieties; (iii) the processing of Additive FMs by adults, in particular by relying on reading experiments involving eye tracking and self-paced reading; (iv) the use of Additive FMs in language contact situations and (v) the acquisition of Additive FMs by different learner groups.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017. vi, 334 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.278

Table of Contents

Introduction: On ‘additivity’ as a multidisciplinary research field

Anna-Maria De Cesare | pp. 1–20

Part I. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a typological and historical perspective

Chapter 1. Syntax and semantics of additive focus markers from a cross-linguistic perspective: A tentative assessment of the state of the art

Ekkehard König | pp. 23–44

Chapter 2. Meaning both ‘also’ and ‘only’? : The intriguing polysemy of Old Italian pur(e)

Davide Ricca | pp. 45–76

Part II. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a semantic, prosodic and pragmatic perspective

Chapter 3. On the distribution of additive focus particles addirittura and perfino/persino in Italian

Vahram Atayan | pp. 79–106

Chapter 4. French additive particle aussi : Does prosody matter?

Sandra Benazzo and Cédric Patin | pp. 107–136

Chapter 5. Processing additivity in Spanish : incluso vs. además

Laura Nadal, Inés Recio Fernández, Martha Rudka and Óscar Loureda | pp. 137–154

Part III. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a discourse-oriented perspective

Chapter 6. Mapping additivity through translation : From French aussi to Italian anche and back in the Europarl-direct corpus

Cecilia Andorno and Anna-Maria De Cesare | pp. 157–200

Chapter 7. The scalar operator even and its German equivalents : Pragmatic and syntactic factors determining the use of auch, selbst and sogar in the Europarl corpus

Volker Gast | pp. 202–235

Part IV. Additive Focusing Modifiers from a language contact perspective

Chapter 8. Additive focus particles in German-speaking learners of Italian as L2

Irene Caloi | pp. 237–264

Chapter 9. Additive relations in L2 French: Contrasting acquisitional trends of Italian and Russian learners

Sandra Benazzo and Katia Paykin | pp. 265–310

Chapter 10. Ënghe, ence and also anche : Ladin and Italian additive particles in language contact situation

Ilaria Fiorentini | pp. 311–330

Focusing modifiers index | pp. 331–332

General index | p. 333

Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

Casalicchio, Jan & Manuela Caterina Moroni

2023. The Syntax–Pragmatics Interface in Heritage Languages: The Use of anche (“Also”) in German Heritage Speakers of Italian. Languages 8:2 ► pp. 104 ff.

Favaro, Marco

2020. Chapter 4. From focus marking to illocutionary modification. In Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles [Studies in Language Companion Series, 213], ► pp. 112 ff.

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