The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study
We present evidence from acceptability judgment experiments that there is systematic prosodic givenness marking in Czech in that discourse-salient elements avoid sentence stress, contra the claim in Kučerová (2007, 2012) that givenness is marked only syntactically---by establishing a word order in w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/3001 |