Sentence and Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentence and Discourse write by Jacqueline Guéron. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Sentence and Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite determiners in French and Bulgarian, and the influence of aktionsart on the acquisition of tense by English, French, and Chinese children. Part II looks at modes of discourse, showing for example how discourse relations create implicatures and how Indirect Discourse differs from Free Indirect Discourse. The studies conclude that the relations between sentences that make a discourse coherent are already encoded in sentence grammar and that, once established, these relations influence the meaning of individual sentences.
Beyond the Sentence
Beyond the Sentence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Sentence write by Scott Thornbury. This book was released on 2005. Beyond the Sentence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we design sentences to fit their purposes and how do we combine them to communicate complex, contextualized meanings? This work takes discourse apart to show how it is organized and how it aids communication.
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse write by Joan L. Bybee. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Discourse and Grammar
Discourse and Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse and Grammar write by Günther Grewendorf. This book was released on 2012-12-19. Discourse and Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Information Structure and Sentence Form - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Structure and Sentence Form write by Knud Lambrecht. This book was released on 1996-11-13. Information Structure and Sentence Form available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. This relationship between speaker assumptions and formal sentence structure is governed by rules and conventions of grammar, in a component called 'information structure'. Four independent but interrelated categories are analysed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.
