'En' en is níet wat we dachten: a Flemish discourse particle
The aim of this paper is twofold. We will argue that Flemish /en/ has hitherto been misanalysed, mostly as a marker of negation or polarity, and that a number of its distributional and interpretive properties have previously been ignored. In contrast to previous analyses of this particle (Haegeman, 1998, Jayaseelan, 2010) we propose that the specific properties of /en/ that we have identified are not syntactically encoded but instead follow from its lexical semantics. Following a Relevance Theory approach, we will propose a new analysis of en as a discourse marker, arguing that it has undergon... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conference |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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MIT
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Schlagwörter: | Languages and Literatures / Flemish / Jespersen's cycle / Relevance Theory / discourse marker / grammaticalisation / procedural items / negation / polarity emphasis |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28656255 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5837394 |
The aim of this paper is twofold. We will argue that Flemish /en/ has hitherto been misanalysed, mostly as a marker of negation or polarity, and that a number of its distributional and interpretive properties have previously been ignored. In contrast to previous analyses of this particle (Haegeman, 1998, Jayaseelan, 2010) we propose that the specific properties of /en/ that we have identified are not syntactically encoded but instead follow from its lexical semantics. Following a Relevance Theory approach, we will propose a new analysis of en as a discourse marker, arguing that it has undergone grammaticalization as a procedural item, or processing instruction, instructing discourse participants on how to integrate the utterance containing it into the discourse context.