Discourse and Syntax

• Author(s): Talmy Givon,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 558
• ISBN_10: 9004368892
  ISBN_13: 9789004368897
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax ,

Description:... Preliminary Material /Talmy Givón --On the Explanation of Transformations /Chet A. Greider --Discourse without Syntax /Erica C. Garcia --Planned and Unplanned Discourse /Elinor Ochs --From Discourse to Syntax: Grammar as a Processing Strategy /Talmy Givón --The Paragraph as a Grammatical Unit /R. E. Longacre --Organizational Patterns in Discourse /John Hinds --The Flow of Thought and the Flow of Language /Wallace L. Chafe --Communicative Goals and Strategies: Between Discourse and Syntax /David M. Levy --Aspect and Foregrounding in Discourse /Paul J. Hopper --The Figure a Sentence Makes: An Interpretation of a Classical Malay Sentence /A. L. Becker --The Relevance of Repair to Syntax-for-Conversation /Emanuel A. Schegloff --Pronouns in Discourse /Dwight Bolinger --Third-Person Pronouns and Zero-Anaphora in Chinese Discourse /Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson --Focus of Attention and the Choice of Pronouns in Discourse /Charlotte Linde --Deixis in Discourse: An Exploratory Quantitative Study of the Modem Dutch Demonstrative Adjectives /Robert S. Kirsner --Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation /Alessandro Duranti and Elinor Ochs --Anything You Can Do /Suzanne Laberge and Gillian Sankoffa --Discourse Constraints on Dative Movement /Nomi Ertescik-Shir --Discourse Function of Morphology: The Focus System in German /David A. Zubin --The Development of the Swahili Object Marker: A Study of the Interaction of Syntax and Discourse /Benji Wald --Subject Index /Talmy Givón --Contents of Previous Volumes /Talmy Givón.