Prosodic and gestural marking of complement fronting in Maltese
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Prosodic and gestural marking of complement fronting in Maltese. / Paggio, Patrizia; Galea, Luke; Vella, Alexandra.
Languages of Malta. Vol. 18 Berlin : Language Science Press, 2018. p. 81-116 (Studies in Diversity Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Prosodic and gestural marking of complement fronting in Maltese
AU - Paggio, Patrizia
AU - Galea, Luke
AU - Vella, Alexandra
PY - 2018/3/13
Y1 - 2018/3/13
N2 - This paper deals with the use of complement fronting in a corpus of Maltese conversations. Four different kinds of constructions are distinguished based on the discourse status of the fronted complement: focus movement, topicalisation and two types of left dislocation. A discussion is carried out of the ways in which suprasegmental features, both in terms of prosody and gestures, underpin the discourse functions of the four construction types. Our findings show that a falling pitch accent is nearly always present on the fronted complement, and that there is a tendency for gestures to accompany this same complement. We also show that thefour construction types can be ordered on the basis of suprasegmental complexitywith focus movement as the least complex, followed by topicalisation, and finallyboth types of left dislocation as the most complex.
AB - This paper deals with the use of complement fronting in a corpus of Maltese conversations. Four different kinds of constructions are distinguished based on the discourse status of the fronted complement: focus movement, topicalisation and two types of left dislocation. A discussion is carried out of the ways in which suprasegmental features, both in terms of prosody and gestures, underpin the discourse functions of the four construction types. Our findings show that a falling pitch accent is nearly always present on the fronted complement, and that there is a tendency for gestures to accompany this same complement. We also show that thefour construction types can be ordered on the basis of suprasegmental complexitywith focus movement as the least complex, followed by topicalisation, and finallyboth types of left dislocation as the most complex.
UR - http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/182
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.1181783
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.1181783
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-96110-070-5
VL - 18
T3 - Studies in Diversity Linguistics
SP - 81
EP - 116
BT - Languages of Malta
PB - Language Science Press
CY - Berlin
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