Generating Narratives
Interrelations of Knowledge, Text Variants, and Cushitic Focus Strategies
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2011
XI, 727 pages
978-3-11-087226-2 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
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English
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Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Interrelations of Knowledge, Text Variants, and Cushitic Focus Strategies
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Content
- Intro
- Part I Introduction and background
- Section A Guides for the reader
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A survey of the study
- 3. Symbols and abbreviations
- 4. On reading the text charts
- Section B Background of the study
- 1. Acknowledgments to those who provided language data
- 2. The context of this study
- 3. Brief notes on the language areas and the ethnic groups
- 4. Gada and the Gedeo way of life today
- 5. Linguistic descriptions of the three Highland East Cushitic languages
- 6. The classification of Sidamo, Gedeo and Burji
- Section C Typological characteristics
- 1. Phonological characteristics
- 2. Morphophonemic characteristics
- 3. Morphological characteristics
- 4. Morpho-syntactic strategies
- 5. Noun phrases in text and syntax
- 6. An introduction to complex structures
- 7. A sample grammar of two complex sentences (Gedeo)
- 8. Representation of complex structures
- 9. Representation of text scores with transitions
- Section D Perspectives on discourse and text generation
- 1. The functional grammar model of Simon Dik
- 2. Text generation
- 3. Analysis of discourses of the narrative genre
- 4. Psychology of sentence production
- Section E The present approach
- 1. Comparison of models
- 2. The components of narratives
- 3. The pragmatic notions "theme, topic, focus" and "coda"
- Part II Gedeo narratives
- Section A Gedeo Text A: "A Story of Hyenas"
- 1. The worlds of texts as exemplified in text A
- 2. Steps in the production of text A
- 3. Text rules: The "Semantic Frames Roster" of text A
- 4. The complete "Semantic Frames Roster" of text A with signals
- 5. The "Hyena" narrative in four surface versions
- 6. Generating different surface forms for the "same" text
- Section B Gedeo Text B: "Nine Hyenas and One Lion"
- 1. Remarks on text B
- 2. Notes on the lexicon of text B
- 3. Generating text B
- 4. The charts of text B
- 5. Actual surface form of text B
- 6. Hesitation patterns and notional units in text B
- Section C Gedeo-texts C1, C2 and C3: "A House on Fire"
- 1. Remarks on texts C1, C2, and C3
- 2. Generating texts C1, C2, and C3: A note on functors
- 3. Text rules of texts C1, C2 and C3
- 4. On the charts of text texts C1, C2 and C3
- 5. The actual surface forms of texts C1, C2 and C3
- Part III Burji narratives
- Section A Burji Text A: "Jackal and Hyena"
- 1. Overall pattern and script of Burji Text A
- 2. The lexicon of Burji Text A
- 3. Designing the story time-line
- 4. Remarks on the charts of Burji Text A
- 5. The actual surface form of Burji Text A
- 6. Comparison of oral and written versions
- Section B Burji Text B: "A Journey to Debre Zeyt"
- 1. Remarks on Burji Text B
- 2. Lexicon of Burji Text B
- 3. The "Semantic Frames Roster" of Burji Text B
- 4. Chart for generating the surface form of text B
- 5. Chart: The actual surface form of Burji Text B
- Section C Burji Text C: "Origin and Migrations of the Burji People"
- 1. Remarks about Burji Text C
- 2. Lexical list of Burji Text C
- 3. The semantic frames roster of Burji Text C
- 4. Developing the surface form of Burji Text C
- 5. The actual surface form of Burji Text C
- Part IV Sidamo narratives
- Section A Sidamo Text A: "The Girl Arfu"
- 1. General remarks about Sidamo Text A
- 2. Word list, Sidamo Text A
- 3. Remarks on the semantic frames roster of Sidamo Text A
- 4. The charts of Sidamo Text A
- 5. The actual surface form of Sidamo Text A
- Section B Sidamo Text B: "The Animal which was Beaten"
- 1. Remarks on Sidamo Text B
- 2. Word List: Sidamo Text B
- 3. Scenes and participants of Sidamo Text B
- 4. The time-line of Sidamo Text B
- 5. The actual surface form of Sidamo Text B
- Part V Comparisons and summary
- Section A Typological traits of Gedeo, Burji and Sidamo
- 1. Comparisons of syntax and text strategies
- 2. Comparisons of morphology and text frequencies
- Section B The present model of text generation
- 1. Modifications of the "functional grammar" model
- 2. Speakers' strategies and the presentation of texts
- Section C Text dimensions: identification and predication
- 1. Text dimensions
- 2. Identification of participants: maintaining and highlighting
- 3. Predications and their relations to each other
- Section D Qualities and overall structures of the narratives
- 1. Stylistic and representative qualities of narratives
- 2. Overall structures of narratives
- Appendix
- Swadesh/Bender wordlist
- Notes
- References
- Index
