A Pragmatic Constraint on Ambiguity Detection: A Rejoinder to Büring and Hartmann and to Reis

Büring and Hartmann (2001) and Reis (2005) discuss reconstruction data with focus particles in German which they claim show that German allows adjunction of phonologically integrated focus particles to the root clause. We show that the facts are better explained by independent pragmatic constraints...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Natural language and linguistic theory 2009-02, Vol.27 (1), p.139-150
Hauptverfasser:	Meyer, Marie-Christine, Sauerland, Uli
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adjunct clauses Ambiguity Bridges Clauses Descriptive studies and applied theories Entailment Function words German Grammatical clauses Judgment Language Linguistics Natural language Natural Language Processing (NLP) Original Paper Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Radiation counters Reading Semantics Semantics and pragmatics Social Sciences Syntactics Syntax Theoretical linguistics
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Zusammenfassung:	Büring and Hartmann (2001) and Reis (2005) discuss reconstruction data with focus particles in German which they claim show that German allows adjunction of phonologically integrated focus particles to the root clause. We show that the facts are better explained by independent pragmatic constraints on semantic judgments and conclude therefore that there are no arguments in support of root clause adjunction of such focus particles in German.
ISSN:	0167-806X 1573-0859
DOI:	10.1007/s11049-008-9060-2