Chapter 8
Online text mapping
The contribution of verbless constructions in spoken Italian and
French
This is a corpus driven study on verbless
constructions (Cxs[ØVP]) in spoken Italian and French that
have a textual naming function, namely verbless constructions that
speakers use to name what they are going to talk about. This paper
suggests that these constructions are tools that speakers use as
structure’s mapping in the discourse to orient the listener and
themselves and that build meta-discursive and meta-textual ad
hoc categories. These structures are frequent in very
high informative texts (i.e. meetings and conferences) and their
occurrence correlates with the information’s density in texts.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The corpus
- 3.Meta-textual CxsNP[ØVP]
- 3.1Types of meta-textual CxsNP[ØVP]
- 4.Some quantitative data
- 5.Conclusions
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Notes
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References