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Inhalt: Dynamische Interpretation der Leistungsfähigkeit Integrierte Einkommens- und Gewinnbesteuerung Zins- und Sparbereinigung Individuelle Fairness und Familiengerechtigkeit Einfachheit für Administration und Bürger Auswirkungen auf Steueraufkommen und Einkommensverteilung Generationengerechtigkeit Begleitende Maßnahmen Systemdynamik und Wirtschaftswachstum
The polit-economic situation in germany : chances for changes in resource and energy economics
(2002)
Contents: Regional Management, Land Use and Energy Production -Biophysical View -First Hypothesis -International and Interregional Cooperation -Second Hypothesis -Partnership with Nature Sustainability and the Agricultural Sector -Traditional Farming -Mono-cultural Bio-industry -Liquid Manure Problems -Clean Drinking Water -Integrated Agro-industrial System -Ecological Farming -Ecotones and Bio-manipulation Regional Economic and Agricultural Policy -New Roles for the Agricultural Sector
Inhalt: Veränderungen der Bemessungsgrundlage -Besteuerung der Alterseinkommen -Sozialversicherungsbeiträge, Vorsorgeaufwendungen und Sonderausgaben -Die Behandlung der Einkünfte aus nichtselbständiger Arbeit -Behandlung der Einkünfte aus Vermietung und Verpachtung -Behandlung der Gewinneinkunftsarten und der Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen -Kindergeld und Kinderfreibeträge Gesamtwirkungen Der Karlsruher Reformentwurf -Die Elemente des Karlsruher Entwurfs -Karlsruher Entwurf im empirischen Vergleich Tarifanalyse unter Einschluß des Grundfreibetrags
Inhalt: Finanz- und belastungspolitische Konsequenzen -Die Methode -Die Ergebnisse -Die Reformnotwendigkeit Zur gegenwärtigen Lage der Rentnerhaushalte -Das Vier-Säulen-System der Alterssicherung -Die Einkommenssituation der Rentnerhaushalte -Die praktizierte Rentenbesteuerung Einfachheit, Transparenz und Akzeptanz Grundsicherung, Alterssicherung und Rentenbesteuerung -Grundsicherung und Alterssicherung -Gesetzliche und freiwillige Alterssicherung -Korrespondenzprinzip und Rentenbesteuerung
Inhalt: Gutachten im Auftrag des Ministeriums der Finanzen des Landes Brandenburg (beinhaltet den Text des Gutachtens - Teil a) Mischfinanzierungstatbestände -Allgemeine Probleme der Mischfinanzierung -Gemeinschaftsaufgaben -Finanzhilfen nach Art. 104a Abs. 4 GG -Geldleistungsgesetze nach Art. 104a Abs. 3 GG Lösungsmöglichkeiten -Verteilungsschlüssel und Mischfinanzierung -Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten -Neuverteilung der Mittelzuweisungen am Beispiel der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe "Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur" -Kompensationsmodelle für Mischfinanzierungstatbestände
Inhalt: Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung (VGR) -Entstehung und Ziele der VGR -Methodik und Umfang der VGR -Ausgewählte Indikatoren und Kennziffern -Grenzen der Interpretationsmöglichkeiten Umweltökonomische Berichterstattung (UB) -Ziele der UB -Umsetzungsansätze einer UB -Problembereiche der UB Die Regionalisierte Ökologische Gesamtrechnung (RÖG) -Zielsetzungen der RÖG -Modellvorschlag und Indikatorenauswahl -Möglichkeiten und Grenzen bei der Umsetzung Umsetzung der RÖG innerhalb von GRANO -Denkbare Anwendungsgebiete -Praktische Rahmenbedingungen der Anwendung in GRANO
Face-to-face communication is multimodal. In unscripted spoken discourse we can observe the interaction of several "semiotic layers", modalities of information such as syntax, discourse structure, gesture, and intonation. We explore the role of gesture and intonation in structuring and aligning information in spoken discourse through a study of the co-occurrence of pitch accents and gestural apices. Metaphorical spatialization through gesture also plays a role in conveying the contextual relationships between the speaker, the government and other external forces in a naturally-occurring political speech setting.
The present study examines native and nonnative perceptual processing of semantic information conveyed by prosodic prominence. Five groups of German learners of English each listened to one of 5 experimental conditions. Three conditions differed in place of focus accent in the sentence and two conditions were with spliced stimuli. The experiment condition was presented first in the learners’ L1 (German) and then in a similar set in the L2 (English). The effect of the accent condition and of the length and position of the target in the sentence was evaluated in a probe recognition task. In both the L1 and L2 tasks there was no significant effect in any of the five focus conditions. Target position and target word length had an effect in the L1 task. Word length did not affect accuracy rates in the L2 task. For probe recognition in the L2, word length and the position of the target interacted with the focus condition.
Diskurspragmatische Faktoren für Topikalität und Verbstellung in der ahd. Tatianübersetzung (9. Jh.)
(2005)
The paper presents work in progress on the interaction between information structure and word order in Old High German based on data from the Tatian translation (9th century). The examination of the position of the finite verb in correspondence with the pragmatic status of discourse referents reveals an overall tendency for verb-initial order in thetic/all-focus sentences, whereas in categorical/topic-comment sentences verb-second placement with an initial topic constituent is preferred. This conclusion provides support for the hypothesis stated in Donhauser & Hinterhölzl (2003) that the finite verb form in Early Germanic serves to distinguish the information-structural domains of Topic and Focus. Finally, the investigation sheds light on the process of language change that led to the overall spread of verb-second in main clauses of modern German.
This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages. Based on new empirical evidence from five Gur and Kwa languages, we claim that these focus expressions have to be analysed as biclausal constructions even though they do not represent clefts containing restrictive relative clauses. First, we relativize the partly overgeneralized assumptions about structural correspondences between the out-of-focus part and relative clauses, and second, we show that our data do in fact support the hypothesis of a clause coordinating pattern as present in clause sequences in narration. It is argued that we deal with a non-accidental, systematic feature and that grammaticalization may conceal such basic narrative structures.
The Semantics of Ellipsis
(2005)
There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns cannot possibly be bound; an ellipsis being resolved in such a way that an ellipsis site in the antecedent is not understood in the way it was there; an ellipsis site drawing material from two or more separate antecedents; and ellipsis with no linguistic antecedent. These cases are accounted for by means of a new theory that involves copying syntactically incomplete antecedent material and an analysis of silent VPs and NPs that makes them into higher order definite descriptions that can be bound into.
Stop bashing givenness!
(2005)
Elke Kasimir’s paper (in this volume) argues against employing the notion of Givenness in the explanation of accent assignment. I will claim that the arguments against Givenness put forward by Kasimir are inconclusive because they beg the question of the role of Givenness. It is concluded that, more generally, arguments against Givenness as a diagnostic for information structural partitions should not be accepted offhand, since the notion of Givenness of discourse referents is (a) theoretically simple, (b) readily observable and quantifiable, and (c) bears cognitive significance.
In order to investigate the empirical properties of focus, it is necessary to diagnose focus (or: "what is focused") in particular linguistic examples. It is often taken for granted that the application of one single diagnostic tool, the so-called question-answer test, which roughly says that whatever a question asks for is focused in the answer, is a fool-proof test for focus. This paper investigates one example class where such uncritical belief in the question-answer test has led to the assumption of rather complex focus projection rules: in these examples, pitch accent placement has been claimed to depend on certain parts of the focused constituents being given or not. It is demonstrated that such focus projection rules are unnecessarily complex and in turn require the assumption of unnecessarily complicated meaning rules, not to speak of the difficulties to give a precise semantic/pragmatic definition of the allegedly involved givenness property. For the sake of the argument, an alternative analysis is put forward which relies solely on alternative sets following Mats Rooth's work, and avoids any recourse to givenness. As it turns out, this alternative analysis is not only simpler but also makes in a critical case the better predictions.
We present a system for the linguistic exploration and analysis of lexical cohesion in English texts. Using an electronic thesaurus-like resource, Princeton WordNet, and the Brown Corpus of English, we have implemented a process of annotating text with lexical chains and a graphical user interface for inspection of the annotated text. We describe the system and report on some sample linguistic analyses carried out using the combined thesaurus-corpus resource.
This paper discusses the use of XSLT stylesheets as a filtering mechanism for refining the results of user queries on treebanks. The discussion is within the context of the TIGER treebank, the associated search engine and query language, but the general ideas can apply to any search engine for XML-encoded treebanks. It will be shown that important classes of linguistic phenomena can be accessed by applying relatively simple XSLT templates to the output of a query, effectively simulating the universal quantifier for a subset of the query language. uni-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/publika/view.pl?id=206">
Fronting of an infinite VP across a finite main verb-akin to German "VP-topicalization"-can be found also in Czech and Polish. The paper discusses evidence from large corpora for this process and some of its properties, both syntactic and information-structural. Based on this case, criteria for more user-friedly searching and retrieval of corpus data in syntactic research are being developed.
Multiple hierarchies
(2005)
In this paper, we present the Multiple Annotation approach, which solves two problems: the problem of annotating overlapping structures, and the problem that occurs when documents should be annotated according to different, possibly heterogeneous tag sets. This approach has many advantages: it is based on XML, the modeling of alternative annotations is possible, each level can be viewed separately, and new levels can be added at any time. The files can be regarded as an interrelated unit, with the text serving as the implicit link. Two representations of the information contained in the multiple files (one in Prolog and one in XML) are described. These representations serve as a base for several applications.
This paper describes the standardization problems that come up in a diachronic corpus: it has to cope with differing standards with regard to diplomaticity, annotation, and header information. Such highly het-erogeneous texts must be standardized to allow for comparative re-search without (too much) loss of information.
This paper presents some concepts and principles used in the development of a database of multilingual spoken discourse at the University of Hamburg. The emphasis of the first part is on general considerations for the handling of heterogeneous data sets: After showing that diversity in transcription data is partly conceptually and partly technologically motivated, it is argued that the processing of transcription corpora should be approached via a three-level architecture which separates form (application) and content (data) on the one hand, and logical and physical data structures on the other hand. Such an architecture does not only pave the way for modern text-technological approaches to linguistic data processing, it can also help to decide where and how a standardization in the work with heterogeneous data is possible and desirable and where it would run counter to the needs of the research community. It is further argued that, in order to ensure user acceptance, new solutions developed in this approach must take care not to abandon established concepts too quickly. The focus of the second part is on some practical experiences with users and technologies gained in the four years’ project work. Concerning the practical development work, the value of open standards like XML and Unicode is emphasized and some limitations of the “platform-independent” JAVA technology are indicated. With respect to users of the EXMARaLDA system, a predominantly conservative attitude towards technological innovations in transcription corpus work can be stated: individual users tend to stick to known functionalities and are reluctant to adopt themselves to the new possibilities. Furthermore, an active commitment to cooperative corpus work still seems to be the exception rather than the rule. It is concluded that technological innovations can contribute their share to a progress in the work with heterogeneous linguistic data, but that they will have to be supplemented, in the long run, with an adequate methodological reflection and the creation of an appropriate infrastructure.
Unity in diversity
(2005)
This paper describes the creation and preparation of TUSNELDA, a collection of corpus data built for linguistic research. This collection contains a number of linguistically annotated corpora which differ in various aspects such as language, text sorts / data types, encoded annotation levels, and linguistic theories underlying the annotation. The paper focuses on this variation on the one hand and the way how these heterogeneous data are integrated into one resource on the other hand.
The concepts of food deficit, hunger, undernourishment and food security are discussed. Axioms and indices for the assessment of nutrition of individuals and groups are suggested. Furthermore a measure for food aid donor performance is developed and applied to a sample of bilateral and multilateral donors providing food aid for African countries.
Inhalt: Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik Einkommens- und Transferschichtung des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung Sozio-ökonomisches Panel (SOEP) Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) Mikrodatensatz des Instituts für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
Die zunehmende Erosion der veranlagten Einkommensteuer wirft die Frage auf, inwieweit die Möglichkeit der Verechnung positiver mit negativen Einkünften dafür verantwortlich ist. Auf der Basis eines Mikrosimulationsmodells analysiert der Beitrag die Wirkungen dieser im deutschen Einkommensteuerrecht möglichen Verrechenbarkeit. Zum einen werden die aus der Abschaffung der Verrechnungsmöglichkeiten resultierenden Wanderungen von Steuerpflichtigen in höhere Einkommensklassen und zum anderen die Auswirkungen auf das Steueraufkommen untersucht. Insgesamt vermindern ca. 5 % der Steuerpflichtigen ihre positiven Einkünfte durch negative Einkünfte einer anderen Einkunftsart. Im Hinblick auf das Steueraufkommen zeichnen sich beträchtliche Steuerausfälle in Höhe von ca. 33 Mrd. DM durch diese Verrechnungsmöglichkeit ab.
Inhalt: Wieviel Staat braucht der Markt? -Markt und Staatsversagen -Markt- und Staatsversagen im Versicherungsbereich -Der Markt braucht den Staat nur beschränkt Wieviel Staat braucht die Gerechtigkeit? -Gerechtigkeit -Solidarität und Einkommensumverteilung in der Sozialversicherung -"Soziale Gerechtigkeit"- ein tauglicher Begriff? Deutsche Erfahrungen mit der gesetzlichen Sozialversicherung und die polnischen Reformprojekte -Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung -Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung
The paper is an enquiry into dynamic social contract theory. The social contract defines the rules of resource use. An intergenerational social contract in an economy with a single exhaustible resource is examined within a framework of an overlapping generations model. It is assumed that new generations do not accept the old social contract, and access to resources will be renegotiated between any incumbent generation and their successors. It turns out that later generations will be in an unfortunate position regardless of their bargaining power.
Inhalt:Die Vorlage enthält zwei Werke: Hans-Georg Petersen: Schriftliche Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines Steuerreformgesetzes (StRG) 1999 der Fraktionen der CDU/CSU und F.D.P. (Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 13/7480) -Anmerkungen zur Senkung des Einkommensteuertarifs -Anmerkungen zur Verbreiterung der Bemessungsgrundlage und Vereinfachung -Anmerkungen zu den Einzelregelungen des StRG (beschränkt auf wichtige Teilregelungen) Hans-Georg Petersen & Christhart Bork: Gemeinsame Stellungnahme zu dem Steuerreformvorschlag der SPD, dem Antrag von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (BtDr. 13/7895) und dem Beschluß der Bundestagsgruppe der PDS sowie zum Gesetzentwurf der CDU/CSU und F.D.P. zur Fortsetzung der wirtschaftlichen Förderung in den neuen Ländern (BtDr. 13/7792)
In modern political philosophy social contract theory is the most prominent approach to individual rights and fair institutions. According to social contract theory the system of rights in a society ought to be justified by reconstructing its basic features as a contract between the mutually unconcerned members of society. This paper explores whether social contract theory can successfully be applied to justify rights of future generations. Three competing views are analysed: Rawls's theory of justice, Hobbes's radical liberalism and Gauthier's bargaining framework based on the Lockean proviso.
Manuskript zweier Vorträge gehalten anläßlich der Tagung "Wirtschaft im Wandel - Sozialstaat im Umbruch" am Zentrum für Arbeit und Soziales (ZENTRAS) der Universität Trier 24. Februar 1997, Schloß Quint und vor der Enquete-Kommission "Demographischer Wandel" des Deutschen Bundestages 26. Februar 1997, Bonn Inhalt: Reformsequenzen und -komponenten -Öffentlicher Sektor -Steuersystem -Arbeitsmarkt -Soziale Sicherung -Bildungswesen Grundlegende Ideen, Durchsetzbarkeit und Akzeptanz Weitere Reformperspektiven Neuseeland - ein Beispiel für Deutschland?
Inhalt: Aufbau des Simulationsmodells Struktur der Simulation Rohdatenübernahme -Daten aus der Einkommens- und Transferschichtung -Daten aus der Einkommensteuerstatistik Variable Parameter -Variablen aus einkommensteuerrechtlichen Vorgaben -Abfragen -Hinterziehungs- und Berücksichtigungsquoten -Tariffunktion Berechnungen im Simulationsmodul
Inhalt: Theoretische Begründung einer Besteuerung von Alterseinkünften Kritische Überprüfung einiger Argumente Die Reformvorschläge und das Simulationsmodell Die Simulationsergebnisse Kritische Bewertung der Ergebnisse Mit einem Kommentar von Hans-Peter Weikard: Rentenbesteuerung und Korrespondenzprinzip: 1. Wie selbstverständlich ist das Korrespondenzprinzip? 2. Die zeitliche Dimension des Korrespondenzprinzips 3. Eine unzulässige Interpretation 4. Fazit
The value concept of traditional resource economics is welfare. Therefore, sustainability of welfare is often taken to characterise our obligations to future generations. This paper argues that this view is inappropriate because it leaves no room for future generations autonomy. Future generations should be free to make their own decisions. Consequently freedom of choice is the appropriate value concept on which resource economics should be based. The concept of sustainability receives a new interpretation. Sustainability is a principle of intertemporal distributive justice which requires equitable opportunities across generations.
Inhalt: Immobilienindizes in Deutschland -Überblick -Immobilienindex der BulwienGesa AG Zeitliche Disaggregation von Indexreihen mit Hilfe kubischer Splines -Problemstellung -Ermittlung der Polynomialkoeffizienten und Interpolation der Zwischenwerte -Anwendung des Splines auf den Halifax House Price Index Erzeugung vierteljährlicher Indexreihen auf der Grundlage von Daten der BulwienGesa AG
Eine Klasse von statistischen Tests zur Spezifikation von Logit-Modellen wird vorgestellt. Diese Tests sind Adaptionen von allgemeineren Spezifikationstests nichtlinearer Modelle. Die theoretische Anwendbarkeit der Tests wird dargelegt und die praktische Anwendbarkeit in Simulationsstudien erörtert. Eine konkrete Anwendung auf einen Datensatz und ein multinomiales Logit-Modell zur Produktwahl wird präsentiert.
In der Praxis stellt die Korrelation eines der wesentlichsten Zusammenhangsmaße dar. Doch die Anwendung dieses Instruments ist in vielen Fällen sehr kritisch zu beurteilen. So enthalten gerade bei Zeitreihen die Ausgangsdaten oft temporale Trends, die zu einem zu hohen Zusammenhangsmaß führen. Gerade bei der Arbeit mit Finanzdaten wird allerdings mit den Differenzen oder sogar mit den prozentualen Änderungen gearbeitet. Hier sind die Trends im wesentlichen extrahiert. Die Daten sind somit fast immer stationär und die Instrumente der linearen Regression damit anwendbar. Auch die Korrelation kann somit problemlos ermittelt werden. Doch gerade bei solchen transformierten Daten sind praktisch kaum noch signifikante Zusammenhänge nachweisbar. Daß die Wahrheit manchmal in der Mitte liegt, versucht diese Arbeit mit Hilfe der Kointegration aufzuzeigen. Immobilienanlagen sind aufgrund ihrer geringen Korrelation mit Aktien und Renten v.a. im Rahmen langfristiger Anlagestrategien interessant, da durch sie hohe Diversifikationseffekte zu erzielen sind. Die risikoreduzierende Wirkung wird mit Hilfe der Korrelationskoeffizienten begründet. Dieses Vorgehen ist jedoch zweifelhaft, da die Korrelationskoeffizienten typischerweise anhand der periodischen - und damit kurzfristigen - Abweichungen bestimmt werden. Ein zwischen diesen Vermögensklassen aufgrund des gleichen ökonomischen Hintergrunds plausibler langfristiger Zusammenhang wird daher ggf. nicht erfaßt, die tatsächlichen Diversifikationseffekte werden somit möglicherweise über-, Risiken damit unterschätzt. Im Gegensatz zum Korrelationskoeffizienten ermöglicht ein neueres statistisches Verfahren, das Fehler-Korrektur-Modell, die Berücksichtigung von kurz- und langfristigen Zusammenhängen. Anhand eines Vergleichs der nach den unterschiedlichen Berechnungsmethoden festgestellten Zusammenhänge wird daher überprüft, ob der Korrelationskoeffizient als Entscheidungsgrundlage für langfristige Anlagestrategien tatsächlich geeignet ist. Es zeigt sich, daß er die Zusammenhänge in vielen Fällen offensichtlich gut beschreibt. Allerdings ergeben sich Hinweise auf unberücksichtigte langfristige Zusammenhänge. Sie signalisieren, daß die Diversifikationseffekte überschätzt werden. Das sollte Anreiz für weitere Untersuchungen sein. Denn sind langfristige Zusammenhänge feststellbar, investieren langfristig orientierte Marktteilnehmer, die auf Basis "kurzfristiger" Indikatoren entscheiden, möglicherweise in suboptimale Portfolios. Das bedeutet zum Beispiel, daß sie bei gleichem Risiko einen höheren Ertrag erwarten könnten.
ANNIS
(2004)
In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of our first version of the database "ANNIS" ("ANNotation of Information Structure"). For research based on empirical data, ANNIS provides a uniform environment for storing this data together with its linguistic annotations. A central database promotes standardized annotation, which facilitates interpretation and comparison of the data. ANNIS is used through a standard web browser and offers tier-based visualization of data and annotations, as well as search facilities that allow for cross-level and cross-sentential queries. The paper motivates the design of the system, characterizes its user interface, and provides an initial technical evaluation of ANNIS with respect to data size and query processing.
Focus strategies in chadic
(2004)
We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under consideration. Firstly, it is standardly assumed that focus is generally marked by stress. The Chadic languages, however, exhibit a variety of different devices for focus marking. Secondly, it is assumed that focus is always marked. In Tangale, at least, focus is not marked consistently on all types of constituents. The paper offers two possible solutions to this dilemma.
In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of discourse structure (DS)/information structure (IS) interface. This field has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial progress in recent years. In this paper we summarize the relevant studies. In addition, we look at the issue of DS/ISinteraction at a different level - that of phonetics. It is known that both information structure and discourse structure can be realized prosodically, but the issue of phonetic interaction between the prosodic devices they employ has hardly ever been discussed in this context. We think that a proper consideration of this aspect of DS/IS-interaction would enrich our understanding of the phenomenon, and hence we formulate some related research-programmatic positions.
Prosody by phase
(2004)
Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.
We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities. While it is usually assumed that the semantics of sentences with determiner quantifiers and those with adverbial quantifiers basically come out the same, we will show by way of new data that quantification over events is more restricted than quantification over individuals. This is because eventualities in contrast to individuals have to be located in time which is done using contextual information according to a pragmatic resolution strategy. If the contextual information and the tense information given in the respective sentence contradict each other, the sentence is uninterpretable. We conclude that this is the reason why in these cases adverbial quantification, i.e. quantification over eventualities, is impossible whereas quantification over individuals is fine.
This paper investigates the nature of the attraction of XPs to clauseinitial position in German (and other languages). It argues that there are two different types of preposing. First, an XP can move when it is attracted by an EPP-like feature of Comp. Comp can, however, also attract elements that bear the formal marker of some semantic or pragmatic (information theoretic) function. This second type of movement is driven by the attraction of a formal property of the moved element. It has often been misanalysed as “operator” movement in the past. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.
Results of a production experiment on the placement of sentence accent in German are reported. The hypothesis that German fulfills some of the most widely accepted rules of accent assignment— predicting focus domain integration—was only partly confirmed. Adjacency between argument and verb induces a single accent on the argument, as recognized in the literature, but interruption of this sequence by a modifier often induces remodeling of the accent pattern with a single accent on the modifier. The verb is rarely stressed. All models based on linear alignment or adjacency between elements belonging to a single accent domain fail to account for this result. A cyclic analysis of prosodic domain formation is proposed in an optimality-theoretic framework that can explain the accent pattern. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.