@book{Fliessbach2023,
  author    = {Fliessbach, Jan},
  title     = {The intonation of expectations},
  publisher = {Language Science Press},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-96110-413-0},
  issn      = {2940-1100},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.7929375},
  pages     = {285},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they are associated with distinct intonational features under constant focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives, showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and expectations between interlocutors.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{UthGutierrezBravoFliessbach2024,
  author    = {Uth, Melanie and Guti{\´e}rrez-Bravo, Rodrigo and Fliessbach, Jan},
  title     = {On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya},
  series = {Frontiers in language sciences},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Frontiers in language sciences},
  publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.},
  address   = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
  issn      = {2813-4605},
  doi       = {10.3389/flang.2023.1286520},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we present data from an elicitation study and a corpus study that support the observation that the Yucatec Maya progressive aspect auxiliary t{\´a}an is replaced by the habitual auxiliary k in sentences with contrastively focused fronted objects. Focus has been extensively studied in Yucatec, yet the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya remains understudied. Both our experimental results and our corpus study point in the direction that this incompatibility may very well be categorical. Theoretically, we take a progressive reading to be derived from an imperfectivity operator in combination with a singular operator, and we propose that this singular operator implicates the negation of event plurality, leading to an exhaustive interpretation which ranks below corrective focus on a contrastive focus scale. This means that, in a sentence with object focus fronting, the use of the marked auxiliary t{\´a}an (as opposed to the more general k) would trigger two contrastive foci, which would be an unlikely and probably dispreferred speech act.},
  language  = {en}
}