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On the pragmatic and semantic functions of Estonian sentence prosody artwork
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On the pragmatic and semantic functions of Estonian sentence prosody

Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Jul 7, 20150Arts

The goal of the dissertation was to investigate intonational correlates of information structure in a free word order language, Estonian. Information-structural categories such as focus or givenness are expressed by diff...