Parentheticals

[Bernd Heine]

Hi Dan,
Thanks for raising this issue. Work on parentheticals has become a 
lively field of research over the last years. What some of this research 
suggests is, first, that parentheticals (or theticals, as our working 
group calls them) are not only a matter of phonetics/prosodics and 
syntax but also of discourse pragmatics/context, as pointed out by Ceci, 
and of semantics. And second, this research also suggests that 
(paren)theticals appear to be part of a more general phenomenon in the 
organization of linguistic discourse. An overview of this line of 
research can be found in the following papers:

Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical 
grammar. /Studies in Language /35, 4: 848-893.

Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2013. An 
outline of discourse grammar. In Shannon Bischoff and Carmen Jany 
(eds.), /Functional Approaches to Language/. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. 
Pp. 175-233.

So far, most of this work has been concerned with European languages. We 
have now started extending the framework to some African languages, but 
this turns out to be more difficult than we had envisaged.
Bernd
> Hi Dan:
>
> Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source.
>
>   http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research
>
> John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English).
>   https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main
>
> Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....
>
> ceci
>
> On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"<DEVERETT at bentley.edu>  wrote:
>> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
>>
>> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Dehé's forthcoming book:http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
>>
>> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
>>
>> Dan Everett
>>   
>>
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