Information Structuring in Discourse

304 Pages·2020·3.58 MB·English

by  Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, Israel de la Fuente

InformationStructuringinDiscourse
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Current Research in the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
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Information Structuring
in Discourse
Editedby
AnkeHoller
KatjaSuckow
IsraeldelaFuente
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Title:Informationstructuringindiscourse/editedbyAnkeHoller,KatjaSuckow,
IsraeldelaFuente.
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Compartaiveandgeneral–Syntax–Congresses.|Pragmatics–Congresses.
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
NotesonContributors ix
1 StructuringInformationinDiscourse:TopicsandMethods 1
IsraeldelaFuente,AnkeHollerandKatjaSuckow
2 CoherenceandtheInterpretationofPersonalandDemonstrative
PronounsinGerman 24
YvonnePorteleandMarkusBader
3 CleftFocusandAntecedentAccessibility:TheEmergenceoftheAnti-focus
Effect 56
ClarePattersonandClaudiaFelser
4 TopicsandSubjectsinGermanNewspaperEditorials:ACorpusStudy 86
PeterBourgonjeandManfredStede
5 InferableandPartitiveIndefinitesinTopicPosition 112
KlausvonHeusingerandUmutÖzge
6 ProjectiontotheSpeaker:Non-restrictiveRelativesMeetCoherence
Relations 141
KatjaJasinskajaandClaudiaPoschmann
7 CentralAdverbialClausesandtheDerivationofSubject-InitialV2 163
LilianeHaegeman
8 DiscourseConditionsonRelativeClauses:ACrosslinguisticand
DiachronicStudyontheInteractionbetweenMood,VerbPositionand
InformationStructure 201
MarcoConiglioandRolandHinterhölzl
9 What’sinanAct?TowardsaFunctionalDiscourseGrammarofPlatonic
DialogueandaLinguisticCommentaryonPlato’sProtagoras 234
CassandraFreiberg
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Figures andTables
Figures
2.1 Percentagesofcompletionsreferencingtheobjectnp(=thestimulus
argument)ofcontextsentence3inExperiment1 35
2.2 Percentagesofreferentsfromthecontextrementionedinsentenceinitial
positioninthecontinuationsofExperiment2 42
2.3 Percentagesofreferentialexpressionsineithersubjectorobjectfunctionused
inExperiment2forreferringtothesubj(ect)/experiencerorthe
obj(ect)/stimulusargumentofthelastcontextsentence 44
3.1 Meanfirst-fixationtimesperconditioninthespilloverregion,
Experiment1 71
3.2 Meanfirst-passtimesperconditioninthespilloverregion,Experiment1 71
3.3 Meanfirst-passtimesperconditioninthefinalregion,Experiment1 72
3.4 Meanregression-pathtimesperconditioninthespilloverregion,
Experiment1 74
3.5 Meanregression-pathtimesperconditioninthefinalregion,Experiment1 74
3.6 Meanrereadingtimesperconditioninthecriticalregion,Experiment1 76
3.7 Meanz-scoresperconditionforExperiment2 78
4.1 annis3GraphicalUserInterfacewithexamplequeryandresults 100
5.1 Prince’s(1981b,p.237)taxonomyofassumedfamiliarityandinformation
status 120
5.2 Exp.1:Discourselinking(nonevs.partvs.infrvs.both)XPosition(topic
vs.nontopic):Meanratingsof29participantsinawebbased
questionnaire 131
5.3 Exp.2:Discourselinking(partvs.both)XPosition(topicvs.nontopic):
Meanratingsof96participantsinaweb-basedquestionnaire 133
5.4 Exp.3:Context(bothvs.partvs.infrvs.none):Meanratingsof46
participantsinaweb-basedquestionnaire 135
8.1 AnalysisofV2relatives 215
8.2 CorrelationsinohgandModernGerman(respectively) 223
8.3 Correlationsbasedontheoreticalaccounts 225
8.4 Clausal(In)dependencyMarking.AdaptedfromGärtner&Eythórsson,
2020 227
9.1 CommunicativesituationsinPlatonicdialogue 236
9.2 CommunicativesituationsintheProtagoras 242
9.3 fdg-architecture 245
9.4 BasicelementsofanexchangeanddefinitorycharacteristicsofaDiscourseAct
infdg 250
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viii figures and tables
Tables
2.1 AcompletestimulusitemforExperiment1 33
2.2 Percentagesofcompletionscongruentwiththebiasofcontextsentence3in
Experiment1 36
2.3 ExamplecontinuationsfromExperiment2 41
2.4 Percentagesofreferentsfromthecontextoccurringastheonlyorfirstreferent
inthecontinuationsofExperiment2 42
2.5 Percentagesofreferentialexpressionsineithersubjectorobjectfunctionused
inExperiment2forreferringtothesubject/experiencerortheobject/stimulus
argumentofthelastcontextsentence 44
2.6 ApplicationoftheBayesianformulatothedatafromExperiment1and
Experiment2 46
3.1 Meanfirst-fixationtimesandfirst-passtimesinmillisecondsperconditionin
thecritical,spilloverandfinalregionsforExperiment1 70
3.2 Meanregression-pathtimesinmillisecondsperconditioninthecritical,
spilloverandfinalregionsforExperiment1 73
3.3 Meanrereadingandtotalviewingtimesinmillisecondsperconditioninthe
critical,spilloverandfinalregionsforExperiment1 75
4.1 Distributionoftheticandnon-theticspansondifferentannotationlevels 99
4.2 Classificationresults 104
7.1 V2transgressionsinStDwithcentraladverbialclauses 177
7.2 V2transgressionsinStDwithperipheraladverbialclauses 177
8.1 Specificityofthereferentandmoodintherelativeclause 219
8.2 Specificityofthereferentsofallsubjunctiverelativeclausesinthe
ReferenzkorpusAltdeutsch 219
8.3 Specificityofthereferentandverbpositionintherelativeclause 221
8.4 Verbpositionintherelativeclauseandmoodalternation 222
9.1 DiscoursestructureofPl.Prt.309a1–b9 284
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Notes on Contributors
MarkusBader
Goethe-UniversitätFrankfurt,InstitutfürLinguistik
PeterBourgonje
UniversitätPotsdam,DepartmentLinguistik
MarcoConiglio
Georg-August-UniversitätGöttingen,SeminarfürDeutschePhilologie
ClaudiaFelser
UniversitätPotsdam,PotsdamResearchInstituteforMultilingualism
CassandraFreiberg
Humboldt-UniversitätzuBerlin,InstitutfürdeutscheSpracheundLinguistik
IsraeldelaFuente
UniversitédeLille&cnrs-umr8163“Savoirs,Textes,Langage”
LilianeHaegeman
UniversiteitGent,DiaLing
KlausvonHeusinger
UniversitätzuKöln,InstitutfürdeutscheSpracheundLiteraturi
RolandHinterhölzl
UniversitàCa’FoscariVenezia,DipartimentodiScienzedelLinguaggio
AnkeHoller
Georg-August-UniversitätGöttingen,SeminarfürDeutschePhilologie
KatjaJasinskaja
UniversitätzuKöln,InstitutfürdeutscheSpracheundLiteraturi
UmutÖzge
MiddleEastTechnicalUniversityAnkara,InformaticsInstitute
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x notes on contributors
ClarePatterson
UniversitätzuKöln,InstitutfürdeutscheSpracheundLiteraturi
YvonnePortele
Goethe-UniversitätFrankfurt,InstitutfürLinguistik
ClaudiaPoschmann
UniversitätzuKöln,InstitutfürdeutscheSpracheundLiteraturi
ManfredStede
UniversitätPotsdam,DepartmentLinguistik
KatjaSuckow
Georg-August-UniversitätGöttingen,SeminarfürDeutschePhilologie
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