Constraints in discourse 3 : representing and inferring discourse structure / edited by Anton Benz, Manfred Stede, and Peter Kühnlein.

The goal of this paper is to compare appositive relative clauses (henceforth ARCs) to other structures that convey the same information, in order to determine the morphosyntactic, semantic and above all pragmatic factors conditioning the choice of structure. Alternatives to ARCs examined here includ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Benz, Anton, 1965-, Stede, Manfred, 1965-, Kühnlein, Peter
Other title:Constraints in discourse Three.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; 223.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction / Manfred Stede
  • Processing narrative texts: Melting frozen time? / Berry Claus
  • Through narrative planning towards the preverbal message: A DRT-based approach / Antje Rodeutscher
  • Bridges between events: Frame semantics and indirect anaphora / Matthias Irmer
  • semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT / Mathilde Dargnat
  • Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts / Gisela Redeker
  • Complex connectives in German: Complications for local coherence analysis / Kristin Irsig
  • Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish: A corpus-based analysis of Fakat, Yoksa, Ayrica / Ruket Caktct
  • Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in English: An information-packaging approach / Rudy Loock.