Semantische, pragmatische und prosodische Aspekte nicht-restriktiver Relativsätze

NRR项目的目标是对德语、法语和英语中的非限制性关系从句(Nrrcs)进行功能和韵律分析。与限制句不同的是，尽管nrrc的位置被嵌入其中，但人们通常认为nrrcs在其矩阵从句中既没有语义上的整合，也没有韵律上的整合，甚至不影响其(语用)语篇功能。然而，第一阶段的实验表明，nrrcs的位置、韵律以及信息和语篇结构等因素可能会严重影响其可接受性和解释能力。这些发现不利于nrrcs的完全语义、语用和韵律自主性。因此，第二阶段的重点将放在一种实验性的方法上，即nrrcs是否可以在语义和韵律上整合到其矩阵从句中，如果可以，哪些因素决定了它们的嵌入行为。特别是，我们将调查(非)嵌入性是否取决于矩阵从句中的位置；特定的回指和NRRC内部语篇成分；韵律因素；信息结构；或者NRRC和矩阵从句之间的语篇联系。

The objective of the NRR project is a functional and prosodic analysis of non-restrictive relative clauses (nrrcs) in German, French, and English. It is usually assumed that unlike their restrictive counterparts and despite their embedded position, nrrcs are neither semantically nor prosodically integrated in their matrix clause, ad that they do not even affect its (pragmatic) discourse function.Experiments carried out in the first project phase, however, revealed that factors like the position of nrrcs, prosody, as well as information and discourse structure may heavily bear upon their acceptability and interpretation. These findings militate against a full semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic autonomy of nrrcs as it has frequently been assumed in the literature.Consequently, the emphasis in the second phase will be put on an experimental approach to the question of whether nrrcs can be semantically and prosodically integrated into their matrix clause and if so, which factors determine their embedding behaviour. In particular, we will investigate whether (non-) embeddability depends on the position in the matrix clause; on particular anaphoric and nrrc-internal discourse elements; on prosodic factors; information structure; or the discourse connection between nrrc and matrix clause.