Complex Sentences In Grammar And Discourse
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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
Author | : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027225850 |
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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.
English Complex Sentences
Author | : Richard A. Hudson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4320439 |
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Structure and Function From clause to discourse and beyond
Author | : Christopher Butler |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1588113590 |
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Volume one of a two volume set outlining and comparing three approaches to the study of language labelled 'structural-functionalist': functional grammar (FG); role and reference grammar (RRG); and systemic functional grammar (SFG).
Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences
Author | : Rik van Gijn,Jeremy Hammond,Dejan Mati?,Saskia van Putten,Ana Vilacy Galucio |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2014-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027270757 |
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This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one hand, a complex sentence can be studied as a mini-unit of discourse consisting of two or more elements describing events, situations, or processes, with its own internal information-structural and referential organization. On the other hand, complex sentences can be studied as parts of larger discourse structures, such as narratives or conversations, in terms of how their information-structural characteristics relate to this wider context. The book offers new perspectives for the study of the interaction between complex sentences and information management, and moreover adds typological breadth by focusing on lesser studied languages from several parts of the world.
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences
Author | : Holger Diessel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139454087 |
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This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.
Structure and Function A Guide to Three Major Structural Functional Theories
Author | : Christopher S. Butler |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2003-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027296528 |
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Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution, information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics, translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of descriptive and explanatory adequacy.
Some Aspects of Text Grammars
Author | : Teun A. van Dijk |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-04-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110804263 |
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Semantics Sentence and Information Structure
Author | : Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110589863 |
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Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.