The Thread of Discourse

Joseph Evans Grimes

Walter de Gruyter, 1975 - Computers - 408 pages

Contents

• Preface: 1
• Empirical studies: 28
• Events and participants in discourse: 35
• Nonevents in discourse: 53
• Constituency in discourse: 101
• Semantic role structure: 112
• Semantic derivation: 139
• Other relationships among predicates: 155
• The arguments of propositions: 162
• Referential indices: 180
• The grammar of semantic productions: 186
• Rhetorical structure: 207
• Discourse semantics and the surface hierarchy: 249
• Linear organization: 256
• Participant orientation: 264
• Cohesion: 272
• Information rate: 297
• Staging: 323
• Postsemantic shaping: 349
• Appendix Thematic linkage in Nambiquara narrative: 361
• Bibliography: 369
• Index: 385
• 180: 390
• 186: 397
• Armagost James L 1: 1
• The speaker and hearer in discourse: 5
• Modality: 15
• 12: 16
• Topicalization: 22
• 14: 35
• Burnham Jeff 37: 37
• 18: 44
• Callaghan Catherine A 53: 53
• 82: 70
• Casad Eugene H 77: 77
• 43: 116
• 61: 124
• Cline David 137: 137
• Crawford James M 157: 157
• DeLancey Scott Carol Genetti and Noel Rude 195: 195
• Drechsel Emanuel J 225: 225
• Oswalt Robert L: 611
• Rankin Robert L: 629
• Rude Noel: 651
• Variability: 657
• Scancarelli Janine: 675
• Shaul David L: 693
• Siebert Frank T: 715
• Stewart Anne M: 765
• Teeter Karl V: 787
• Ulrich Charles H: 805
• Index of Languages: 819

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Thread of Discourse; Volume 207 of Janua linguarum : studia memoriae Nicolai van Wijk dedicata. Series Minor; Volume 207 of Janua linguarum; Issue 207 of Janua linguarum: Series minor, ISSN 0075-3122; Volume 207 of Janua linguarum: Studia memoriae
• Author: Joseph Evans Grimes
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1975
• ISBN: 902793164X, 9789027931641
• Length: 408 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech & Pronunciation