Andreas Trotzke
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas Trotzke is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
Titles
Discourse-oriented Syntax
Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke
Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.
Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface
Andreas Trotzke
The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 225] 2015. vi, 147 pp.
2022 Chapter 11. PP-internal particles in Dutch as evidence for PP-internal discourse structure Particles in German, English, and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Chapter
Drawing on evidence from Dutch, this paper presents the new observation that discourse particles can not only appear at the level of CP, but also inside the PP domain. In particular, we demonstrate that Dutch dan can receive a non-temporal interpretation, and in this reading dan can appear as a… read more
2020 Editorial: Introduction to Pedagogical Linguistics Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–7 | Editorial
Linguistics comes in many flavors. Applied, cognitive, descriptive, educational, formal, functional, generative, and many more can be compounded onto linguistics to characterize specific frameworks and approaches. In this brief editorial, we outline the rationale for the notion and the… read more
2020 German discourse particles in the second language classroom: Teasing apart learning problems at the syntax-pragmatics interface Pedagogical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 184–210 | Article
One of the main pedagogical objectives for language learners at high proficiency levels is to use ‘cohesive devices’ when writing a text or conducting a conversation. Usually, curricula stress the importance of clause-internal cohesion (by means such as connectives: and, but, when, because, etc. read more
2019 A note on the emotive origins of syntax Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1, pp. 90–104 | Article
In this note, I ask what (if any) linguistic means above the word level might have already been in place before our full-blown syntactic capacity involving recursive Merge has evolved. I argue that the ‘pre-Merge era’ might have been characterized by paratactic emotive utterances comparable to… read more
2019 Basque question particles: Implications for a syntax of discourse particles Linguistic Variation 19:2, pp. 352–385 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the syntax of question particles in Basque and provide an account that draws new parallels between the syntactic behavior of discourse particles in Basque and some recent findings that have been reported for the German language, perhaps the most studied language of all… read more
2017 Mirative fronting in German: Experimental evidence The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity, Celle, Agnès and Anastasios Tsangalidis (eds.), pp. 460–488 | Article
This paper presents an examination of syntactic constructions that are associated with the mirative interpretation of marking propositional content as being surprising or unexpected to the speaker. I report experimental evidence showing that certain options of marked word order in German are… read more
2015 The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles Discourse-oriented Syntax, Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke (eds.), pp. 13–40 | Article
German discourse particles are known to appear in clause-medial position and to resist displacement to the left or to the right. Nevertheless, there seems to be an exception: discourse particles in interrogatives can be moved to the left as a consequence of forming a constituent with a wh-phrase.… read more
2015 Issues in discourse-oriented syntax Discourse-oriented Syntax, Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article