Universität zu Köln

Kalbertodt, Janina (2019). Right Dislocation and Afterthought in German - Investigations on Multiple Levels. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

When investigating the right sentence periphery in German, two constructions are encountered that appear to be rather similar at first glance: right dislocation and afterthought. Irrespective of this superficial similarity, right dislocation and afterthought can be distinguished at multiple levels of linguistic description. This thesis aims at providing a more nuanced understanding of right dislocation and afterthought by providing empirical investigations, both qualitative and quantitative in nature, employing analyses of experimentally acquired data as well as corpus analyses. It is shown that right dislocation and afterthought are best defined on the basis of the functions they take in discourse rather than on the basis of their prosodic realisations, and that their functional differences are reflected in a number of linguistic parameters, such as their morpho-syntactic con¬straints as well as their degree of syntactic integratedness, their prosodic features, and even their punctuation in written texts.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Translated title:	Title Language Rechtsversetzung und Reparatur-Nachtrag im Deutschen - Untersuchungen auf verschiedenen Ebenen UNSPECIFIED
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kalbertodt, Janina janina.kalbertodt@gmx.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-116028
Date:	2019
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Germanic
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language right dislocation UNSPECIFIED afterthought UNSPECIFIED lexical-functional grammar UNSPECIFIED prosody UNSPECIFIED punctuation UNSPECIFIED case agreement UNSPECIFIED German UNSPECIFIED information structure UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	5 September 2019
Referee:	Name Academic Title Schumacher, Petra Prof. Dr. Baumann, Stefan PD Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11602