[PLing] Einladung zum Vortrag Claudia Poschmann, 8.10.

[Viola Schmitt]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

wir möchten Sie alle ganz herzlich zu einem Vortrag von Claudia Poschmann
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, in Zusammenarbeit mit Michael Wagner,
McGill University) einladen, der

am 8.10. 2015
von 13:15 bis 14:45
im  Übungsraum 3 (Hauptgebäude)

stattfindet.

Der Titel lautet

Relative Clause Extraposition and Prosody in German

Das Abstract findet sich am Ende dieser E-mail.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen (auch im Namen von Katharina Hartmann und Jakob
Steixner),

Viola Schmitt





Relative Clause Extraposition and Prosody in German

Abstract: Two factors that have been argued to affect the extraposability
of relative clauses (RCs) are (i) discourse focus and (ii) RC-type
(restrictive/appositive). However, no previous study has looked at the
interaction between these two factors, despite the fact that different
types of relative clauses have been argued to differ in their relation to
focus, and one might therefore expect such interactions. Furthermore,
previous studies have not looked at the role of the prosody in accounting
for the effect focus on extraposition. In this talk, I will present the
results of a production experiment on German which crosses the location
focus and the type of RC and explores how they interact in affecting
prosody and extraposition.