Catalan focus markers as discourse particles

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• dc.contributor.author Trotzke, Andreas
• dc.contributor.author Mayol, Laia
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T05:33:29Z
• dc.date.available 2022-05-25T05:33:29Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract In this paper, we investigate focus markers in Catalan that can take on discourse-particle readings.We focus on two Catalan elements that have not been studied from a formal linguistics perspective so far: the focus adverb precisament ‘precisely’ and the focus particle també ‘also’. We demonstrate that these elements feature interpretations that we identify as a type of meaning familiar from discourse particles in languages other than Catalan. After having outlined the basic distribution and interpretative effects of these particles, we analyze the semantics and pragmatics of precisament and també within a probabilistic argumentative framework, and we then conclude the paper by comparing the observations and analyses we have pointed out for Catalan to other languages that feature a discourse-particle reading of similar focus markers.en
• dc.description.sponsorship Andreas Trotzke gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Beatriu de Pinós program (Generalitat de Catalunya/Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge; grant no. 2017- BP00031). Laia Mayol has been supported by the project QUDLE (PGC2018-094029-A-I00) funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCI)/Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER, EU).
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• dc.identifier.citation Trotzke A, Mayol L. Catalan focus markers as discourse particles. J. Linguist. 2021;57(4):871-905. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226720000481
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000481
• dc.identifier.issn 0022-2267
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53235
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Linguistics. 2021;57(4):871-905
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-094029-A-I00
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence )http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Catalan
• dc.subject.keyword Discourse particles
• dc.subject.keyword Focus adverbs
• dc.subject.keyword Focus particles
• dc.subject.keyword Pragmatics
• dc.subject.keyword Semantics
• dc.title Catalan focus markers as discourse particles
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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