Sökning: "focus-background structure"

Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden focus-background structure.

  1. 1. Die Modalpartikeln ja, doch und schon : Zu ihrer Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik

    Författare :Elisabet Ormelius-Sandblom; Tyska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sentence mood; asser; illocutionary force; ja; German modal particles; doch; schon; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; XP; adjunct of VP; non-attitudinal; non-referential; affirmative; adversative; facticity; focus-background structure; theme-rheme structure; German language and literatur; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to show how modal particles can be integrated into a modular description of language where grammar and pragmatics are seen as two independent but interacting modules. The modular approach is chosen because of the problems connected with a functional approach. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Verb-erst-Deklarativsätze. Grammatik und Pragmatik

    Författare :Olaf Önnerfors; Tyska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; German language and literatur; Germanic languages; performative use; German; declarative clause; clause-initial position of the finite verb; syntax; topic-comment structure; information structure; theticity; narrativity; enumeration; deontic modality; exclamation; causality; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain independent declarative clauses in German which have the finite verb in absolute clause-initial position. They are called verb-first declarative clauses. It is shown that this type of clause can be found in a variety of Germanic languages. LÄS MER