Pro-gram

The research program

The interfaces of Prosody (Metrics, Accentuation, Phrasing, Intonation) with the other dimensions of Grammar (Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics) are the subject matter of PRO-GRAM. Our research perspective is to analyze constructions with assumedly specific prosodic properties.

The main topics are:

• Syntactically defined:
  • Incidentals.
  • Coordination.
  • Extraction and dislocation.
• Semantically defined:
  • Association with Focus (restrictive adverbs).
• Pragmatically defined:
  • Clause types and speech acts.

The expected results are:

• multidimensional analyses of the above-mentioned constructions in an HPSG framework (LLF) or in the macro/micro syntax framework (DELIC).
• fine-grained modelization of French Prosody in the auto-segmental metrical framework (LPL and LLF) or the phonological theory 'par contours' (ARP).