Semantische, pragmatische und prosodische Aspekte nicht-restriktiver Relativsätze

该项目的目的是对德语、法语和英语中的非限制性关系从句进行功能和韵律分析。人们通常认为，与限制性从句不同的是，尽管它们处于嵌入状态，但非限制性从句在语义和韵律上都不整合在它们的母句中，甚至不影响母句的语用功能。然而，在第一个项目阶段进行的实验显示，nrrc的位置、韵律、信息和话语结构等因素可能对它们的可接受性和解释性有很大影响。这些发现阻碍了nrcs在语义、语用和韵律上的完全自主，正如文献中经常假设的那样。因此，第二阶段的重点将放在实验方法上，以解决nrrc是否可以在语义和韵律上集成到它们的矩阵子句中，如果可以，哪些因素决定了它们的嵌入行为。特别是，我们将研究（非）可嵌入性是否取决于在矩阵子句中的位置；具体的回指语篇要素与nrrc内部语篇要素论韵律因素；信息结构;或者NRRC与矩阵子句之间的语篇联系。

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.