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Title Coherence and grounding in discourse : outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984 / edited by Russell S. Tomlin
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987

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Description viii, 512 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Typological studies in language ; v. 11
Typological studies in language ; v. 11
Contents Narrative connectives in Sùpyìré / Robert Carlson -- Cognitive constraints on information flow / Wallace Chafe -- Transitivity in grammar and cognition / Scott DeLancey -- Actions and procedural directions / Peter Dixon -- Pragmatic functions of word order in Sesotho acquisition / Katherine Demuth -- Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding / Mary S. Erbaugh -- The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative / Vanessa Flashner -- Anaphora in popular written English narratives / Barbara A. Fox -- Beyond foreground and background / T. Givón -- The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories / Lorraine E. Kumpf -- On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse / Knud Lambrecht -- On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourse / Lynell Marchese -- Is basic word order universal? / Marianne Mithun -- Encoding events in Kalam and English : different logics for reporting experience / Andrew Pawley -- Word order in intransitive clauses in high and low Malay of the late 19th century / Ellen Rafferty -- The functional distribution of preposed and postposed 'if' and 'when' clauses in written discourse / Violeta Ramsey -- "Vividness" and "narrative events" in Japanese conversational narratives / Polly E. Szatrowski -- "Subordination" and narrative event structure / Sandra A. Thompson -- Linguistic reflections of cognitive events / Russell S. Tomlin -- Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond / Benji Wald
Analysis Cohesion (Linguistics) -- Congresses
Discourse analysis -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
Psycholinguistics -- Congresses
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject Cohesion (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses.
Psycholinguistics -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Tomlin, Russell S.
LC no. 87000898
ISBN 0915027852 (alk. paper)
0915027860 (paperback: alk. paper)