@article {6799, title = {The information-structural status of adjuncts: A QUD-based approach}, journal = {Discours }, volume = {28}, year = {2021}, month = {13 octobre 2021}, type = {en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/discours/11454 }, abstract = {

In this paper we present an analysis of the information structural properties\ of different types of verb and sentence modifying adjuncts under a QUD\ approach. Our study is based on naturalistic data from English, German,\ and French containing adjuncts such as temporal, spatial, or manner prepositional\ phrases, as well as different types of adverbial clauses. The analyses\ relies on Riester et al. (2018)\’s approach, which identifies the (generally\ implicit, sometimes overt) Question Under Discussion preceding each utterance\ of a text through explicit pragmatic principles, and derives from it\ the information structure of the utterance. The analysis of adjuncts\ within this approach shows that in certain contexts, though conveying\ new information, adjuncts do not answer the QUD that is answered by the\ sentence they syntactically depend on. We argue that these adjuncts answer\ a different QUD and behave as independent discourse units. As such, they\ have an information structure of their own and are in a rhetorical relation\ with their host clause. Our analysis sheds light on the similarities\ between adjuncts and Potts (2005)\&$\#$39;s supplements: both can be accounted\ for as independent discourse units; however, while supplements display\ projective behavior, adjuncts do not. Following Venhuizen et al. (2014),\ we ascribe this difference to their different semantic anchor (nominal\ vs verbal). Our work therefore highlights a different way for an expression\ to be independent at a discourse level, other than being projective content.

}, keywords = {annotation, discourse structure, information structure, question under discussion}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @unpublished {6255, title = {A QUD-based analysis of non-at-issue expressions in naturalistic data}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

A new definition of non-at-issue (NAI) material in terms of optional information is proposed, which is based on an explicit method of reconstructing the Question Under Discussion and the information structure of utterances in naturalistic data (Riester et al 2018).\ According to this definition, verb and sentence modifiers share important properties with NAI material. We therefore argue that these expressions may represent NAI material, and apply classic diagnostics for non-at-issueness to them. We further show that such expressions are only \‘part-time\’ NAI triggers, namely, unlike supplements or other well-known NAI content, their NAI status varies depending on the context. We focus in particular on temporal and locative modifiers and on conditional clauses in order to show such a property. We finally discuss the position and status of NAI expressions in the QUD tree, showing that such expressions may, but are not always allowed to, have a place in that tree.\ 

}, keywords = {annotation, conventional implicatures., discourse structure, information structure, naturalistic data, non-at-issue, questions under discussion}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @inbook {4790, title = {Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure}, booktitle = {Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax}, volume = {1}, number = {Studies in Language Companion Series}, year = {2018}, pages = {403-443}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, organization = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, edition = {John Benjamins}, chapter = {14}, keywords = {annotation, information structure, naturalistic data, questions under discussion}, isbn = {9789027201102}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.199.14rie}, author = {Riester, Arndt and Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula} } @conference {5810, title = {Principles of information-structure and discourse-structure analysis}, year = {2017}, address = {Saarbruecken, Allemagne}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @conference {5809, title = {A QUD-based analysis of Non-At-Issue material in corpus data}, year = {2017}, address = {Oslo}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @conference {5813, title = {Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure}, year = {2016}, address = {Barcelone}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @inproceedings {schaden:tovena:sub13, title = {The Semantics of the Focus and Temporal Particle Gerade}, volume = {5}, year = {2009}, address = {Stuttgart}, keywords = {C-ACTI}, author = {Gerhard Schaden and Lucia M. Tovena}, editor = {Riester, Arndt and Solstad, Torgrim} }