Over the past decades, L2 research has shown that properties involving the syntax-discourse interface are typically more complex to acquire than strictly syntactic properties. To determine whether the complexity
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Craig. Discourse Conditioned Use of Hittite ma. In: E. Rieken, P. Widmer (eds.), Pragmatische Kategorien. Form, Funktion und Diachronie, Akten der Arbeitsteigung der Indogermanischen Gesell- schaft vom 24. bis 26. September 2007 in Marburg, Wiesbaden, 2009. P. 187–195. Miller ...
According to Sachs (1974), formal aspects of discourse need to be recoded into longer-lasting (propositional) semantic representations while rapidly decaying formal (e.g. phonological, morphological and syntactic information) traces are still active in working memory. Prosodic phrasing seems to be ...
Whereas Turkish has a head-final VP and Russian a head-initial VP, in Urum both OV and VO orders can be used interchangeably within neutral discourse contexts (Skopeteas, 2011, 262). Consider for instance the examples taken from the Urum narrative corpus (Moisidi and Skopeteas, 2014, Moi...
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vS NP VP (V+ NP) A functional approach offers an alternative to structuralism (formalism)pLanguage cannot be described without examining its function. Systemic-func 10、tional approach starts from clause and extends itself to discourse. It involves what language can show (ideational function), ...
3.Sentencesarethelargestgrammaticalunitofalanguage • Thatdoesn’tmeanwehavenottheunitslargerthansentence;butthestudyoftheseunits(suchasconversation,discourse,storiesandtexts)arebeyondthescopeoftheknowledgeoflanguage;weneedconsidertheotherfactorsintherealworld,thatis,theencyclopaedicknowledge.Thus,syntaxunderthe...
The discourse referent x is externally anchored, and the sentence can be evaluated as to its truth or falsity in a standard, truth-conditional, model-theoretic manner. In DRT, the other readings are not (and need not) be represented: in order for a DRS to express a proposition, an ...
24 Note that in (23), the formal status of items like hear and nu is not ambiguous between a deictic- adverbial and a discourse-particle interpretation. That they are to be interpreted as belonging to the former category is clear because they are neither semantically bleached nor referentially...