Project Details
Projekt
The creative listener: Interpretation at the interface of prosody, syntax and information structure (A03)
Subject Area
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512393437
A03 is concerned with the creative interpretation of utterances where the information structure and/or prosody of an utterance do not match a given context. The main question is how and under what circumstances such mismatches are taken to be meaningful, such that they give rise to creative enrichment of meaning by the listeners based on formal markings of focus (prosodic or syntactic). A03 concentrates on creative meaning adjustments and inferences based on implicit focus alternatives. We investigate four languages (German, English, Hungarian, Urdu), which differ in their formal markings of focus providing a cross-linguistic perspective on creative meaning enrichment.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of
SFB 1646:
Linguistic Creativity in Communication
Applicant Institution
Universität Bielefeld
