Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

Andreas Trotzke is Außerplanmäßiger Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His areas of expertise include pragmatics, the syntax-pragmatics interface, psycholinguistics, and language education, and his research has been published in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, and Lingua. He is the General Editor of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics (Benjamins), the editor of numerous volumes, and the author of three monographs, of which the most recent is The Grammar of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension (de Gruyter, 2017).Xavier Villalba is Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics and member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research interests include the interface between syntax and information structure, particularly right-dislocation, and between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, especially exclamative and existential sentences. His work has appeared in journals such as Discourse Processes, Journal of Pragmatics, and Lingua, and in edited volumes from Routledge, Benjamins, and de Gruyter.

This volume offers cutting-edge research on the structural coding of expressive meaning. The eleven chapters plus introduction convincingly show that emotion finds expression on the syntactic, morphological, and prosodic level. Different theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative to functional and usage-based, support the challenge of discovering the often subtle expressive meaning-form relations in various languages (Romance, Germanic, Japanese).

• 1: Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba: Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and frameworks 2: Norbert Corver: On classifiers and affect in the nominal domain: Organizing 'disorganization' 3: Roland Hinterhölzl and Nicola Munaro: On the illocutionary force of exclamatives and non-canonical questions in German and Italian 4: Matteo Greco: Function words and polarity: The case of negation 5: Silvio Cruschina and Valentina Bianchi: Mirative implicatures at the syntax-semantics interface: A surprising association and an unexpected move 6: Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba: Expressive insubordination: A cross-linguistic study on that-exclamatives 7: Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna: Connectors as emotive signs: Expressivity in the right sentence periphery 8: Agnès Celle, Anne Jugnet, and Laure Lansari: Expressive questions in English and French: What the hell versus Mais qu'est-ce que 9: Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti: The Spanish 'mirative future' 10: Jessica Rett: A comparison of expressives and miratives 11: Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada: Cross-linguistic variations in the interpretation of tense in mirative sentences: A view from Japanese mirative expressions nante/towai 12: Lisa Brunetti, Hiyon Yoo, Lucia Tovena, and Rachel Albar: French reason-comment ('how') questions: A view from prosody