Argument Structure in Discourse
2021-2024
Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger, University of Cologne
Dr. Alina Tigau, University of Bucharest
Abstract
This project investigates the discourse properties of internal and external arguments under different types of marking (Differential Object Marking (DOM), Clitic Doubling, zero marking) and for various DP types (e.g., definites vs. indefinites). The hypothesis we start from is that the referential form of an expression conveys information for sentence semantics (referentiality), for informationsstructure (givennes or familiarity) and for discourse structure (discourse prominence). The investigation is mainly carried out on Romanian but also extends across other Romance languages.
Project Members
Gast am Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I – Sprachwissenschaft, und im SFB 1252 Prominence in Language
Büro: Luxemburger Straße 299, Raum 3.03
E-Mail: atigau(at)uni-koeln.de
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I – Sprachwissenschaft
Albertus-Magnus-Platz | 50923 Köln
Büro: Philosophikum, 2. Stock, Raum 2.116
Tel.: +49(0)221-470-4884
E-Mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de
Presentations
von Heusinger, Klaus & Marco Garcia Garcia. 2021. Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish. Presentation at the Workshop "Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax" at the Annual conference of the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), Athen, September 2021.
Tigau, Alina & Klaus von Heusinger. 2021. Romanian direjct object marking and discourse prominence - experimental evidence from a paragraph continuation task. Presentation at the Workshop "Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax" at the Annual conference of the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), Athen, September 2021.
Tigau, Alina & Klaus von Heusinger. 2021. [Person] intervention effects with Romanian ditransitive constructions. Workshop on Ditransitives across languages and frameworks (workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS), Freiburg, March 2021.