Chapter 5
‘Inactiveness’ and ‘backgrounding’
PSC in discourse
Article outline
- 5.1The polysemy of PSC
- 5.1.1The PSC as envisioned within event structure
- 5.1.1.1Descriptive PSC and inactiveness
- 5.1.1.2Evaluative PSC and inactiveness
- 5.2Inactiveness as grammatical construal
- 5.2.1Construction meaning
- 5.2.2Relations between constructions
- 5.2.2.1Inheritance relations
- 5.3Discourse functions of PSC
- 5.3.1An empirical study
- 5.3.1.1Text selection
- 5.3.1.2Constructions in discourse
- 5.3.1.3Procedure of discourse function analysis
- 5.3.1.4Results and analysis
- 5.4Chapter summary