Sentence and Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2015
384 pages
978-0-19-105982-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Jacqueline Guéron is Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris 3. She holds a Ph.D in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Université Paris 7. She has co-edited a number of works on subjects dealing with syntax and construal, most recently on tense, modality, and Creole syntax. She is co-author, with Liliane Haegeman, of English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), and, with Jacqueline Lecarme, of Time and Modality (Springer, 2008). Her publications are devoted to sentence grammar - extraposition, focus, anaphora, inalienable possession, tense, aspect, and modality - as well as to language and literature, including literary criticism, metrical theory and Free Indirect Discourse.
Content
- General preface
- List of abbreviations
- About the contributors
- 1: Jacqueline Guéron: Introduction
- PART I: From Sentence to Discourse
- 2: Brenda Laca: On the temporal orientation of intensional subjunctives in Spanish
- 3: Eric Corre: Russian aspect in finite and non-finite modes: From syntax to event structure
- 4: Liliane Tasmowski: {A/a}spect/discourse interactions
- 5: Maya Hickmann and Henriëtte Hendriks: Time talk in narrative discourse: Evidence from child and adult language acquisition
- 6: Jacqueline Guéron: On the syntax of modality: The Actuality Entailment
- PART II: From Discourse to Sentence
- 7: Nicholas Asher: Implicatures and grammar
- 8: Nicholas Asher and Jacqueline Guéron: Perfect puzzles in discourse
- 9: Patrick Caudal: The passé composé in Old French and Modern French: Evolution or revolution?
- 10: Svetlana Vogeleer: Polyphonic utterances: Alternation of present and past in reported speech and thoughts in Russian
- 11: Alessandra Giorgi: Free Indirect Discourse and the syntax of the left periphery
- 12: Jacqueline Guéron: Subjectivity and Free Indirect Discourse
- References
- Index
