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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511407303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-10560-4

9786612105609

90-272-9031-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

Fabricius-HansenCathrine

RammWiebke

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Subordinate constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Coordinate constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses

Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

'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

Sommario/riassunto

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,