Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Name: Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
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John Haiman Sandra A. Thompson(Editor)

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CLAUSE COMBINING IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
Linkingintonation units in spoken English
Intonation units and clauses
Linking with intonation alone
Linking with 'coordinating' connectives
Linking with 'subordinating' connectives
Focusing on a connective
A comparison with written English
Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative
The problem
Methodology
Results and analysis
Conclusions
Notes
References
Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses
Morphology
The functions of the inconsequential
A. Actions taken in vain
B. Actions not as yet completed
C. Signalling a change of speaker
D. Marking verbs of perception
Conclusions
REFERENCES
Concessive clauses in English and Romance
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
NOTES
REFERENCES
Clause integration in German and Dutchconditionals, concessive conditionals,and concessives
INTRODUCTION
1. V-2 AS A SIGNAL OF INCORPORATION IN GERMANIC
2. CONDITIONALS, CONCESSIVES, AND CONCESSIVE CONDITIONALS
3. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
4. CONDITIONS FOR WORD ORDER CHOICE - GENERALCONSIDERATIONS
5. CONDITIONALS
5.1. Canonical conditionals
5.1.1. Conditions allowing non-integration
5.1.2. Conditions favoring resumption
5.2. Non-canonical conditionals
6. CONCESSIVE CONDITIONALS
6.1. Canonical concessive conditionals
6.1.1. Conditions forcing, favoring, and allowing non- integration
6.1.2. Conditions allowing resumption
6.2. Non-canonical concessive conditionals
7. CONCESSIVES
7.1. Canonical concessives
7.2. Non-canonical concessives
8. CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French
1. Introduction
2. Typological considerations
3. Pragmatic properties of the avoir-cleft
3.1. Concepts and definitions
3.2. The presentational construction: a cognitive hypothesis.
3.3. The presentational function of the avoir-cleft.
3.4. Semantic observations
3.5. From presentation to event-reporting
3.6. A further extension
3.7. Crosslinguistic observations
NOTES
REFERENCES
Towards a typology of clause linkage
1. BASIC CONCEPTS
2. AUTONOMY VS. INTEGRATION
2.1. Hierarchical downgrading
2.2. Syntactic level
3. EXPANSION VS. REDUCTION
3.1. Desententialization of subordinate clause
3.2 Grammaticalization of main verb
4. ISOLATION VS. LINKAGE
4.1. Interlacing
4.2 Explicitness of linking
5. TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF CLAUSE LINKAGE
5.1. Correlations among the parameters
5.2. A functional account of clause linkage
5.3. Types of clause linkage
NOTES
REFERENCES
Subordination in Tauya
1. Introduction
2. Subordination
2.1. Subordinate clauses
2.2. Complement clauses
2.3. Inconsequential clauses
2.4. Complement clauses vs. inconsequential clauses
3. Left-dislocated complement clauses
4. Inconsequential clauses as independent clauses
5. Interpretation
6. Summary
NOTES
REFERENCES
Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie
1. Introduction
2. The data base
3. Grammatical facts about clauses containing yi
4. Function of yi clauses in discourse
5. Frequence and distribution of yi sequentials
6. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
The structure of discourse and 'subordination'
1. INTRODUCTION
2. INTERPRETING THE CLAUSE COMBINATIONS TO BE STUDIED
2.1. Characterization by exemplification
2.2. General characterization of clause combining
2.3. Type of function: embedding vs. clause combining
2.3.1. Embedding
2.3.2. Combining by coordination
2.4. Two degrees of clause combining: hypotaxis and coordination
2.5. Type of interdependence in clause combining
2.6. The function of clauses in combination vs. the class of a clause
2.7. Why not 'subordinate' or 'adverbial' clause?
2.8. Towards a discourse characterization
3. RELATIONS IN DISCOURSE STRUCTURE
3.1. Text relations: an overview
3.2. Individual relations
3.2.1. Enablement
3.2.2. Motivation
3.2.3. Background
3.2.4. Concession
3.2.5. Circumstance, Elaboratio
3.2.6. Solutionhood, antithesis, purpose, condition
3.2.7. Typology of rhetorical relations
3.3. Summary
4. TEXT RELATIONS AND ENHANCING HYPOTAXIS
4.1. Analogy between clause combining and text relations
4.2. Hypothesis
4.3. Predictions about the grammar of clause combining based on rhetorical relations
4.3.1. Use of a hypotactically enhancing clause
4.3.2. Scoping and number of clauses
4.3.3. Grammatical marking
4.3.4. Sequence of clauses
4.3.5. Predominant coding type in text
4.3.6. Summary
4.4. The grammarian's intuition about hypotaxis
4.5. Embedding
4.6. Examples of non-necessary alleged properties of hypotaxis
4.6.1. Information status: Are hypotactic clauses 'known'?
4.6.2. Elocutionary force: Are hypotactic clauses 'unchallengeable'?
4.6.3. Another alleged grammatical property: pronominalization
5. CONCLUSIO
NOTES
REFERENCES
SOURCES OF DATA
The grammaticization of coordination
1. COORDINATION BY INTONATION
1.1. Coordinate noun phrases
1.2. Coordinate predicates
1.3. Coordinate clauses
2. FORMAL MARKERS OF COORDINATION
2.1. Sources of noun phrase coordination
2.2. Sources of predicate coordination
2.3. Sources of clause coordination
3. THE GENERALIZATION OF COORDINATION
4. THE SUDDEN EMERGENCE OF GRAMMATICIZED CONJUNCTIONS
5. CONCLUSION
ABBREVIATIONS
REFERENCES
The discourse function of clause-chaining
INTRODUCTION
1. METHODOLOGY
1.1. Definition of clause-chaining
1.2. Coding
2. SODDO
2.1. Factors affecting the use of the m-form
2.1.1. The m-form and following foregrounded clauses
2.7.2. The m-form and discontinuity with the preceding clause
2.1.3. The m-form and position in sentence
2.2. The effect of combining factor
2.3. The apparent correlation between the m-form and foregrounding
3. JAPANESE
3.1. The stem and the gerund
3.1.1. Marking grounding
3.1.2. Positional characteristics
3.2. The -to form
3.3. Comparison of the -to form and other non-finite forms
4. CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
NOTES
REFERENCES
Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ANALYSIS
2.1. English
2.2. Russian
2.3. Methodological observations
3. EXAMPLES
3.1. Verbal nouns which presuppose and are definite
3.2. Verbal nouns used for first mention in the text
3.3. The truth of the presupposition made by the verbal noun is either being established or being questioned
3.4. Examples with sr. 'cf.'
3.5. Other explicit devices for presupposing.
3.6. Similar behavior of nouns which are not deverbal
3.7. A formulaic example
3.8. Further evidence
4. CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX OF LANGUAGES
INDEX OF NAMES

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