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Clause And Discourse


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Clause Combining In Grammar And Discourse


Clause Combining In Grammar And Discourse
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Author : John Haiman
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1988-01-01

Clause Combining In Grammar And Discourse written by John Haiman and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.



Complex Sentences In Grammar And Discourse


Complex Sentences In Grammar And Discourse
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Author : Joan L. Bybee
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-06-20

Complex Sentences In Grammar And Discourse written by Joan L. Bybee and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.



Working With Discourse


Working With Discourse
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Author : J. R. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-05-27

Working With Discourse written by J. R. Martin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This book is for researchers and students interested in exploring how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. It draws on tools for discourse analysis developed in systemic functional linguistics and register and genre theory but requires no prior knowledge of functional linguistics, avoiding academic complexity wherever possible. Rather it builds a highly accessible set of analytic tools that can be used with ease by workers from a range of disciplines, including educational research, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, text linguistics and language and literacy teaching.



Discourse And Grammar


Discourse And Grammar
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Author : Günther Grewendorf
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-12-19

Discourse And Grammar written by Günther Grewendorf and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.



On Conditionals


On Conditionals
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Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-18

On Conditionals written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences directly reflect the language user's ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the inferential strategies and the cognitive and linguistic processes of human beings. The present volume brings together studies from several perspectives - philosophical, linguistic and psychological - and aims to emphasise the intrinsic connections between the issues to be addressed and to point to new directions for interdisciplinary work.



Grounding In Chinese Written Narrative Discourse


Grounding In Chinese Written Narrative Discourse
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Author : Wendan Li
language : en
Publisher: Brill / Rodopi
Release Date : 2018

Grounding In Chinese Written Narrative Discourse written by Wendan Li and has been published by Brill / Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative DiscourseWendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition and other languages in discourse analysis.



Bridging Constructions


Bridging Constructions
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Author : Valérie Guérin
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2019

Bridging Constructions written by Valérie Guérin and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Electronic books categories.


Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.



Narrative Structure And Discourse Constellations


Narrative Structure And Discourse Constellations
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Author : Roy L. Heller
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-02-25

Narrative Structure And Discourse Constellations written by Roy L. Heller and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Preliminary Material -- The Structure of Biblical Narrative and the Functions of Biblical Discourse: An Introduction to the Problem -- The Joseph Novella: A Discourse-Linguistic Analysis -- The Narrative of David's Court: A Discourse-Linguistic Analysis -- Toward a Functional Approach to the Arrangement of Clauses in Biblical Hebrew Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index of Scholars.



Language Formation By Adults


Language Formation By Adults
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-13

Language Formation By Adults written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Chinese immigrants who settle in Russia’s Far East without formal instruction in the Russian language communicate with local Russians using Russian vocabulary. Each immigrant forms their language to communicate with Russians, not with family or other immigrants. The ‘single-generation languages’ that immigrants form are not replications or simplifications of Chinese or Russian. Grammatical systems formed by these speakers challenge some fundamental assumptions in early 21st-century linguistic theories. Grammatical systems of single-generation languages provide a unique window into how complex grammatical systems emerge, what are the first formal means of expression, and what are the first meanings expressed in grammatical systems. Given massive migrations in the contemporary world, single-generation languages are common, yet understudied, products of language contact.



The Acquisition Of Relative Clauses


The Acquisition Of Relative Clauses
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Author : Evan Kidd
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011

The Acquisition Of Relative Clauses written by Evan Kidd and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse range of theoretical approaches and languages are bought to bear on the acquisition of this construction type, making the volume unique in its coverage. The volume will appeal to students and scholars whose interest lies in the acquisition and processing of syntax with a particular focus on complex sentences in crosslinguistic and functionalist perspective.