Full Description
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.
Contents
1. 0. Introduction; 2. Introduction: On 'additivity' as a multidisciplinary research field (by De Cesare, Anna-Maria); 3. I. Additive FPs from a typological and historical perspective; 4. Syntax and semantics of Additive Focus Markers from a cross-linguistic perspective: A tentative assessment of the state of the art (by Konig, Ekkehard); 5. Meaning both 'also' and 'only'?: The intriguing polysemy of Old Italian pur(e) (by Ricca, Davide); 6. II. Additive FPs from a semantic, prosodic and pragmatic perspective; 7. On the distribution of Additive Focus Particles addirittura and perfino/persino in Italian (by Atayan, Vahram); 8. French additive particle aussi: Does prosody matter? (by Benazzo, Sandra); 9. Processing Additivity in Spanish: incluso vs. ademas (by Nadal, Laura); 10. III. Additive FPs from a discourse-oriented perspective; 11. Mapping additivity through translation: From French aussi to Italian anche and back in the Europarl-direct corpus (by Andorno, Cecilia); 12. The scalar operator even and its German equivalents: Pragmatic and syntactic factors determining the use of auch, selbst and sogar in the Europarl corpus (by Gast, Volker); 13. IV. Additive FPs from a language contact perspective; 14. Additive Focus Particles in German-speaking learners of Italian as L2 (by Caloi, Irene); 15. Additive relations in L2 French: contrasting acquisitional trends of Italian and Russian learners (by Benazzo, Sandra); 16. Enghe, ence and also anche: Ladin and Italian Additive Particles in language contact situation (by Fiorentini, Ilaria)
