Chapter 2
Toward a discourse definition of syntax
The communicative correlates of grammar
Article outline
- 2.1Antecedence
- 2.2The role of grammar in human information processing
- 2.2.1Overview: The functional organization of language
- 2.2.2The conceptual lexicon
- 2.2.3Propositional information
- 2.2.4Multi-propositional discourse
- 2.2.5The interaction between words, propositions and discourse
- 2.3The communicative function of grammar
- 2.3.1Grammar as a structural code
- 2.3.2Grammar as communicative function
- 2.4Theme-and-variation in syntax and the markedness of clause-types
- 2.4.1Overview
- 2.4.2Theme and variations in syntax
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2.4.3The text-frequency distribution of major clause-types
- 2.5The grammar of referential coherence
- 2.5.1Preliminaries
- 2.5.2Discourse structure and referential coherence
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2.5.3High-continuity devices
- 2.5.4Low continuity devices
- 2.5.5Quantitative text-distribution of referent-coding devices
- 2.5.5.1Preliminaries
- 2.5.5.2English
- 2.5.5.3Ute
- 2.5.5.4Biblical Hebrew
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2.5.5.5Spoken Spanish
- 2.5.5.6Japanese
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2.5.5.7Mandarin Chinese
- 2.5.6Word order and referential continuity
- 2.5.6.1Word-order and referential continuity in spoken English
- 2.5.6.2Word order and referential continuity in spoken Ute
- 2.5.6.3Word-order and referential continuity in Early Biblical Hebrew
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2.6Cataphoric aspects of topicality
- 2.6.1Methodological preliminaries
- 2.6.2Indefiniteness and cataphoric topicality
- 2.6.2.1The semantics of reference
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2.6.2.2The numeral ‘one’ as an indefinite marker in Modern Hebrew
- 2.6.2.3The numeral ‘one’ as an indefinite marker in Krio
- 2.6.2.4The demonstrative ‘this’ as an indefinite marker in English
- 2.7Voice constructions and cataphoric topicality
- 2.7.1Anaphoric vs. catephoric zero
- 2.7.2The functional domain of pragmatic voice
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2.7.3Cataphoric zero in passive clauses
- 2.7.3.1Prelude: Typology and functional domains
- 2.7.3.2The diachrony of the zeroed-out agents in non-promotional passives
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2.7.3.3Diachrony of the zeroed-out agents in promotional passives
- 2.8Cataphoric zero in antipassive clauses
- 2.8.1Functional definition of antipassive voice
- 2.8.2A diachronic typology of zero in antipassives
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2.8.3Zero, incorporation, and the rise of antipassive morphology
- 2.9Closure
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Notes
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Abbreviation of grammatical terms