Complex Sentences In Grammar And Discourse

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225850

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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Author : Richard A. Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4320439

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English Complex Sentences by Richard A. Hudson Pdf

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588113590

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Structure and Function: From clause to discourse and beyond by Christopher Butler Pdf

Volume one of a two volume set outlining and comparing three approaches to the study of language labelled 'structural-functionalist': functional grammar (FG); role and reference grammar (RRG); and systemic functional grammar (SFG).

Author : Rik van Gijn,Jeremy Hammond,Dejan Mati?,Saskia van Putten,Ana Vilacy Galucio
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270757

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Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences by Rik van Gijn,Jeremy Hammond,Dejan Mati?,Saskia van Putten,Ana Vilacy Galucio Pdf

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one hand, a complex sentence can be studied as a mini-unit of discourse consisting of two or more elements describing events, situations, or processes, with its own internal information-structural and referential organization. On the other hand, complex sentences can be studied as parts of larger discourse structures, such as narratives or conversations, in terms of how their information-structural characteristics relate to this wider context. The book offers new perspectives for the study of the interaction between complex sentences and information management, and moreover adds typological breadth by focusing on lesser studied languages from several parts of the world.

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139454087

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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences by Holger Diessel Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.

Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296528

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Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories by Christopher S. Butler Pdf

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution, information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics, translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of descriptive and explanatory adequacy.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804263

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Some Aspects of Text Grammars by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

Author : Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589863

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Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure by Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger Pdf

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

Author : Inbal Arnon,Marisa Casillas,Chigusa Kurumada,Bruno Estigarribia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269256

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Language in Interaction by Inbal Arnon,Marisa Casillas,Chigusa Kurumada,Bruno Estigarribia Pdf

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn. In this volume, we bring together researchers working on interaction in different domains to present a cohesive overview of ongoing interactional research. The studies address the diversity of the environments children learn in; the role of para-linguistic information; the pragmatic forces driving language learning; and the way communicative pressures impact language use and change. Using observational, empirical and computational findings, this volume highlights the effect of interpersonal communication on what children hear and what they learn. This anthology is inspired by and dedicated to Prof. Eve V. Clark – a pioneer in all matters related to language acquisition – and a major force in establishing interaction and communication as crucial aspects of language learning.

Author : R. A. Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN : 0720461804

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English Complex Sentences by R. A. Hudson Pdf

Author : Manik Joshi
Publisher : Manik Joshi
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences: English Sentence Forms by Manik Joshi Pdf

REVISED EDITION -- FEB 20, 2016 -- Sentence forms in English language - simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex sentence | phrases and clauses | independent or principal clause (main clause), dependent or subordinate clause | list of important coordinators and transitional expressions (transitional words or phrases) for compound sentences | list of important subordinators for complex sentences | double and multiple sentences | definition and examples of simple, compound and complex sentences

Author : Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000200232

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Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV by Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei Pdf

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works of Chinese grammar, with a special focus on teaching and learning Chinese as a second language. Drawing on rich teaching experience, the authors analyze a myriad of real-world examples to describe Chinese grammatical phenomena and rules while introducing the general grammar system of Chinese. This volume introduces several simple sentence and compound sentence structures of modern Chinese grammar. In addition, the authors examine discourse and other larger units of sentences in use. Since the first edition came out in 1983, this set has been revised twice and remained one of the best sellers in the field. Practitioners and scholars of teaching Chinese as a second language, as well as students with a basic knowledge of Chinese, will find it to be a handy reference.

Author : DEBAISIEUX Jeanne-Marie
Publisher : Lavoisier
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782746295322

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Analyses linguistiques sur corpus : Subordination et insubordination en français  by DEBAISIEUX Jeanne-Marie Pdf

Cet ouvrage se propose de revisiter de façon originale la notion de subordination en français dans la perspective de la linguistique de corpus. Après des chapitres d’introduction où est présenté un cadre descriptif inspiré de l'Approche pronominale étendue à la macrosyntaxe dans la ligne des travaux pionniers de C. Blanche-Benveniste, il rassemble un ensemble d’études monographiques des principaux types de conjonctions de subordination du français à partir d'analyses quantitatives et qualitatives d’exemples tirés de corpus écrits et oraux prenant en compte les variations attachées à divers genres de texte dans les deux domaines. Ces études synchroniques révèlent l’importance de ces morphèmes, généralement étudiés comme de simples outils grammaticaux, dans l’organisation du discours et la gestion de l’interaction. Elles sont mises en perspective avec une étude diachronique et une étude sur l’acquisition des structures. Les résultats renouvellent la question de la complexité et de l’intégration syntaxique.

Author : Christopher S. Butler,Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270221

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Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space by Christopher S. Butler,Francisco Gonzálvez-García Pdf

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for their importance in the model concerned. These ratings are analysed statistically to reveal overall patterns of (dis)similarity across models. The questionnaire ratings and experts’ comments are then used, together with the authors’ close reading of the literature, in detailed discussion leading to a final dichotomous rating for each feature in each model, the results again being analysed statistically. The final chapter presents the overall conclusions and suggests how existing collaborations between approaches could be strengthened, and new ones created, in future research. Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space has been awarded the 2016 prize of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLA) for work by experienced researchers.

Author : M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444119084

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An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen Pdf

This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material.