Discourse and Syntax

List of Contributors

Preface

Part I Between Discourse and Syntax

On the Explanation of Transformations

1. Introduction

2. Topicalizing Rules

3. Focusing Rules

4. Stress and Intonation

5. The Place of English in Types of Discourse Organizing Systems

References

Discourse without Syntax

1. Introduction

2. The Problem

3. The Analysis

4. Conclusions

Appendix. The Corpus

References

Planned and Unplanned Discourse

1. Introduction

2. Data Base

3. Dimensions of Planned and Unplanned Discourse

4. Features of Children's Discourse

5. Features of Relatively Unplanned and Planned Discourse

6. Constraints on Discourse Planning

7. Planned Unplanned Discourse

References

From Discourse to Syntax: Grammar as a Processing Strategy

1. Introduction

2. The Diachronie Process of Syntactization

3. An Interim Summary

4. Pidgins and Creoles

5. Child Versus Adult Language

6. Informal Versus Formal Speech

7. Discussion

References

Part II The Organization of Discourse

The Paragraph as a Grammatical Unit

1. Introduction

2. Arguments for the Grammar of the Paragraph

3. A System of Paragraphs with Structural Parameters

4. The Structure of Unrestricted Paragraphs

References

Organizational Patterns in Discourse

1. Introduction

2. Segmentation of Discourse

3. The Second Loop

4. Paragraph Structure

5. Segment Structure

6. Conclusion

References

The Flow of Thought and the Flow of Language

1. Introduction

2. The Hierarchical Model

3. The Flow Model

4. Thoughts in the Flow Model

5. Episodes in the Flow Model

6. Conclusion

References

Communicative Goals and Strategies: Between Discourse and Syntax

1. Introduction

2. Reconstructing the Speaker's Mental Processes

3. Communicative Goals and Strategies

4. Language Production as a Planning Process

5. Relation to Other Approaches: Speech Acts and Text Grammars

6. Conclusions

References

Part III The Flow of Discourse

Aspect and Foregrounding in Discourse

1. General Properties of Foregrounding

2. Foregrounding through Tense-Aspect Morphology

3. Foregrounding through Word Order

4. Foregrounding through "Voice"

5. Conclusion

References

The Figure a Sentence Makes: An Interpretation of a Classical Malay Sentence

The Relevance of Repair to Syntax-for-Conversation

1. Introduction

2. On the Effects of Repair on the Syntactic Form of Sentences

3. On the Occurrence of Repair in Sentences

4. On the Systematic Relevance of Repair

5. On Aspects of the Orderliness of Same-Turn Repair

6. Syntax or Super-Syntax?

7. Concluding Comments

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

References

Part IV Pronouns and Topic Recoverability

Pronouns in Discourse

1. Introduction

2. No Explicit Antecedent

3. Connections, Loose and Tight

4. Themes, Rhemes, and Topics

5. Point of View

6. Conclusion

References

Third-Person Pronouns and Zero-Anaphora in Chinese Discourse

1. Introduction

2. Zero-Pronouns

3. Realized Pronouns

4. Conclusions

References

Focus of Attention and the Choice of Pronouns in Discourse

Deixis in Discourse: An Exploratory Quantitative Study of the Modern Dutch Demonstrative Adjectives

1. The Problem

2. Inadequacies of Proximate-Distal

3. The System of Deixis and Its Exploitation

4. Validation of the Hypothesis

5. Additional Evidence: Variation across Discourse Types

6. Proximity Revisited

7. Conclusion

References

Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation

1. The Scope of Left-Dislocation in Italian

2. Clitic Pronouns as Agreement Markers

3. The Informational Level

4. Interactional Level

5. LD as an Alternative to Passive: A Multilevel Explanation

References

Part V Discourse Control of Syntactic Processes

Anything You Can Do

1. Introduction

2. On, Indefinite par Excellence

3. Tu~Vous as Indefinite: Contexts of Alternation with On

4. Discursive Effects: What Are Indefinite Referents Used For?

5. Syntactic and Pragmatic Types as Constraints

6. Speakers' Repertoires

7. Sequential Considerations

8. Conclusions

References

Discourse Constraints on Dative Movement

1. Introduction

2. Determiners and Dominance

3. Dominance and Dative Movement

4. Conclusion

References

Discourse Function of Morphology: The Focus System in German

1. Relative Clauses—A Diagnostic Environment for Validating the Focus System

2. Frequency of Mention in Discourse

3. Range of Reference in Discourse

4. Successive Reference in Discourse: The Chaining Effect

5. Egocentrism in Discourse

6. Alternative Explanations for Empirical Data

References

The Development of the Swahili Object Marker: A Study of the Interaction of Syntax and Discourse

1. Introduction

2. Syntactic Properties of the Swahili OM

3. Discourse Constraints on OM-Marking

4. Conclusions

References

Subject Index