12.793, Qs: Branching Direction, German Particle "also"

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Subject: 12.793, Qs: Branching Direction, German Particle "also"

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1)
Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:18:50 -0500
From:  Wayles Browne <ewb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:  frequency of branching direction

2)
Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:27:14 +0100
From:  Simone.Mueller at anglistik.uni-giessen.de
Subject:  German particle "also"

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:18:50 -0500
From:  Wayles Browne <ewb2 at cornell.edu>
Subject:  frequency of branching direction

The theorist and Germanic scholar Janez Oresnik, of the University
of Ljubljana (Slovenia), asks me to forward this question:

The hierarchical structure of sentences can be right or left branching, and
it is common that languages know both kind of branching, possibly in
complementary areas, but not necessarily.
My question: can it be asserted that, cross-linguistically, one kind of
branching is more common than the other kind? Does such a question make sense
at all?
Please reply directly to him at: Janez.Oresnik at uni-lj.si

__________________________________________-
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.



-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:27:14 +0100
From:  Simone.Mueller at anglistik.uni-giessen.de
Subject:  German particle "also"



Dear Linguistlist readers,

I am currently working on the English discourse marker "so" in the
speech of native speakers and German non-native speakers of
English. Classifying the occurring instances of "so", I wondered
whether the Germans' usage of "so" might be influenced by the
German particle "also". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find
specific analyses on the usages and functions of this particle.

Therefore my question: Does anybody know of literature analysing
the functions of the German particle "also"?

I would be grateful for any hint!

Best regards,

Simone Mueller


Institut fuer Anglistik
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10B
35394 Giessen
GERMANY
Tel. +49-641-9930152
Fax. +49-641-9930159

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