Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar As Architecture for Function (Studies in Discourse and Grammar)

470 Pages·2003·4.97 MB·English

by  John W. Du Bois

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PreferredArgumentStructure
Studies in Discourse and Grammar
StudiesinDiscourseandGrammarisamonographseriesprovidingaforumfor
research on grammar as it emerges from and is accounted for by discourse
contexts. The assumption underlying the series is that corpora reflecting
language as it is actually used are necessary, not only for the verification of
grammaticalanalyses,butalsoforunderstandinghowtheregularitieswethink
ofasgrammaremergefromcommunicativeneeds.
Researchindiscourseandgrammardrawsuponbothspokenandwritten
corpora,anditistypically,thoughnotnecessarily,quantitative.Monographsin
theseriesproposeexplanationsforgrammaticalregularitiesintermsofrecur-
rentdiscoursepatterns,whichreflectcommunicativeneeds,bothinformational
andsocio-cultural.
Editors
SandraA.Thompson PaulJ.Hopper
UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara CarnegieMellonUniversity
DepartmentofLinguistics DepartmentofEnglish
SantaBarbara,CA93106 Pittsburgh,PA15213
USA USA
Volume14
PreferredArgumentStructure:Grammarasarchitectureforfunction
EditedbyJohnW.DuBois,LorraineE.KumpfandWilliamJ.Ashby
Preferred Argument Structure
Grammar as architecture for function
Editedby
John W. Du Bois
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara
Lorraine E. Kumpf
CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach
William J. Ashby
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara
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Table of contents
vii
Preface
ix
Abbreviations
1
Introduction
JohnW.DuBois,LorraineE.KumpfandWilliamJ.Ashby
11
Argumentstructure:Grammarinuse
JohnW.DuBois
PreferredArgumentStructureacrosstimeandspace:Acomparative
61
diachronicanalysisofFrenchandSpanish
WilliamJ.AshbyandPaolaBentivoglio
Thelexiconininteraction:DevelopmentaloriginsofPreferred
81
ArgumentStructureinKorean
PatriciaM.Clancy
GenreandPreferredArgumentStructure:Sourcesofargumentstructure
109
inclassroomdiscourse
LorraineE.Kumpf
Issuesinthecomparativeargumentstructureanalysisin
131
Mayannarratives
NoraC.EnglandandLauraMartin
Newlightoninformationpressure:Informationconduits,
159
“escapevalves”,androlealignmentstretching
MarkDurie
BeyondPreferredArgumentStructure:Sentences,pronouns,
197
andgivenreferentsinNepali
CarolGenettiandLauraD.Crain
Multipleconstraintsonreferenceform:Null,pronominal,
225
andfullreferenceinMapudungun
JenniferE.Arnold
247
ArgumentsplitsinFinnishgrammaranddiscourse
Marja-LiisaHelasvuo
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vi Tableofcontents
CoreargumentsandtheinversionofthenominalhierarchyinRoviana 273
SimonH.Corston-Oliver
301
PreferredArgumentStructureinearlyInuktitutspontaneousspeechdata
ShanleyE.M.AllenandHeikeSchröder
TheroleofPreferredArgumentStructureforunderstandingaphasic
339
sentenceplanning
SusanE.KohnandAnaCragnolino
353
Nominalinformationflowinthetalkoftwoboyswithautism
ElizabethG.Weber
Trackingthedeer:Nominalreference,parallelismandPreferred
385
ArgumentStructureinItzajMayanarrativegenres
CharlesAndrewHofling
NarratorvirtuosityandthestrategicexploitationofPreferredArgument
StructureinMocho:RepetitionandconstructedspeechinMocho
411
narrative
LauraMartin
437
PreferredArgumentStructureBibliography
447
Nameindex
449
Languageindex
451
Subjectindex
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Preface
SincethetimeoftheearliestworkonthetheoryofPreferredArgumentStructure
someyearsago,therehasemergednotonlyanewsetofresearchersbutalsoanew
generationofideas.Thechancetoexploreanddebatenewapproachestodiscourse
andgrammar,withthefocusthataspecificsharedtopiclikePreferredArgument
Structurecouldprovide,broughtagroupofresearcherstogetherattheUniversity
ofCalifornia,SantaBarbarainthespringof1995,attheinvitationoftheeditorsof
thisvolume.The motivationwasnot so much reconfirmationof priorresultsas
buildingfromacommonstartingpointtowardnewexplorationsanddiscoveries,
as signaled by the conference’s irreverently prophetic title: Preferred Argument
Structure:TheNextGeneration.(Thishasmetamorphosedintoamoredignifiedand
theoreticallyinformativetitleforthepresentpublication.)Inseekingtodevelop,
challenge, and extend the theory of Preferred Argument Structure, we were
especiallyfortunatetohavethosethreedaysofintenseinteractioninSantaBarbara:
tryingoutideas,debatingtheconsequences,takingawaynewquestions.Sincethen
we have made good use of the stimulation of other perspectives, as the peaceful
confrontationofideascontinuestoinformthethinkingofeachofus,aprocessnow
come to fruition in the present volume. (Two of the papers in this volume, by
ArnoldandbyAllenandSchroder,werenotoriginallypresentedattheconference.)
Itcanbesaidthatallthepapersinthisbookaremarkedbyaneagernesstopushthe
originalmodelinnewdirections.Indeed,thebestpromiseofthisworkliesinwhat
mayyetberealizedthroughnewperspectiveslikethosepresentedhere.
Wearegratefulforthegeneroussupportwehavereceivedforthisprojectfrom
theInterdisciplinaryHumanitiesCenter,DivisionofArtsandHumanitiesinthe
College of Letters and Science, Office of Research, Department of Linguistics,
Department of French and Italian, and College of Creative Studies, all of the
University of California, Santa Barbara; and from the College of Liberal Arts at
California State University, Long Beach. We appreciate the authors for their
contributionsandtheirpatience.Finally,wethankSandyThompsonwho,asseries
editor,hasbeensuchasteadfastsupporterofthisprojectallalongtheway.
JohnW.DuBois
LorraineE.Kumpf
WilliamJ.Ashby
SantaBarbaraandLongBeach

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Abbreviations
A TransitiveSubject
O TransitiveObject
S IntransitiveSubject(all)
Se IntransitiveSubject,EquativeorCopular
Sx IntransitiveSubject,Existential
Si IntransitiveSubject,Other
Su Subject,TransitiveandIntransitive
Sa IntransitiveSubjectwithAproperties
So IntransitiveSubjectwithOproperties
I IndirectObject
Obl Oblique
Authors who have used other abbreviations for individual languages have listed
theminanendnote.