'Subordination' versus 'coordination' in sentence and text : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Wiebke Ramm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine.

Ramm, Wiebke.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 98.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Subordinate constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Coordinate constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Other Title:

Subordination' versus 'coordination' in sentence and text

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch,

Contents:

'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text; Editorial page; Title page ; LCC data; Table of contents ; Editors' introduction; Subordination and coordination from different perspectives; 1. Preliminaries ; 2. 'Sentence' versus 'text' ; 3. Coordination and subordination as syntactic notions ; 3.1 Coordination ; 3.2 Subordination ; 4. 'Coordination' and 'subordination' at text level ; 4.1 Relevant discourse-theoretical distinctions ; 4.2 Syntactic coordination and subordination from a textual perspective ; 5. Outline of contents ; References

Part I. General and theoretical issuesRST revisited; Disentangling nuclearity ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Nuclearity in RST ; 2.1 The original idea: Mann, Matthiessen, and Thompson ; 2.2 Nuclei on the run: extensions by other authors ; 2.3 Other concepts of coherence relations ; 3. Salience in text ; 4. Problems with nuclearity in RST ; 4.1 Syntactic subordination and nuclearity ; 4.2 Nuclearity tied to relations ; 4.3 Enforced nuclearity ; 5. Multi-level discourse representation and annotation ; 5.1 Annotation framework ; 5.2 Levels of annotation ; 5.3 Example

4.2.2 The linguistic discourse model 4.2.3 Segmented discourse representation theory ; 4.3 Future perspectives ; 5. Conclusion ; References; Part II. Cross-linguistic approaches; A corpus-based perspective on clause linking patterns in English, French and Dutch* ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Information packaging across languages ; 3. Close-up on English, French and Dutch ; 3.1 Review of the contrastive literature ; 3.1.1 English vs. French ; 3.1.2 English vs. Dutch ; 3.2 Research hypothesis ; 4.Corpus study ; 4.1Data and methodology ; 4.2 Corpus findings and hypothesis testing

4. Summary and discussion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612105609

9781282105607

1282105604

9789027290311

9027290318

OCLC:

646762041