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Structure and Intonation

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Mark J. Steedman·1991·Language
DOI 10.1353/lan.1991.0098
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Rules for assigning phrasal intonation to sentences are often assumed to require an autonomous level of intonational structure', distinct from what is usually thought of as surface syntactic structure. The present paper argues that the requisite notion of structure can be subsumed under the generalized notion of surface structure that emerges from the combinatory extension of Categorial Grammar. According to this theory, the syntactic structures and the intonational structures of English are one, and can be captured in a single unified grammar. The interpretations that the grammar provides for such constituents correspond to the entities and open propositions that are concerned in certain discourse-related aspects of intonational meaning that have variously been described as ‘theme’ and ‘rheme’ ‘given’ and ‘new’, and ‘presupposition’ and ‘focus’.

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Authors
Steedman, M. J.
Venue
Language
Publisher
Linguistic Society of America
Published
1991-06-01
Volume
67
Issue
2
Pages
260-296
ISSN
0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1353/lan.1991.0098
OpenAlex
W1983440413
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386
References
40
FWCI
94.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
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