Sentence and Discourse by Jacqueline Gueron
This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite determiners in French and Bulgarian, and the influence of aktionsart on the acquisition of tense by English, French, and Chinese children. Part II looks at modes of discourse, showing for example how discourse relations create implicatures and how Indirect Discourse differs from Free Indirect Discourse. The studies conclude that the relations between sentences that make a discourse coherent are already encoded in sentence grammar and that, once established, these relations influence the meaning of individual sentences.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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The Left Edge Ban and the Architecture of the Grammar
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Causation in Grammatical Structures
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Count and Mass Across Languages
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
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Encoding Events
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The Grammar of the Utterance
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Parts of a Whole
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Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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The Complementizer Phase
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Control and Restructuring
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Strategies of Quantification
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The Syntax of Silence
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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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Genericity
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Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
Jacqueline Guéron is Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris 3. She holds a Ph.D in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Université Paris 7. She has co-edited a number of works on subjects dealing with syntax and construal, most recently on tense, modality, and Creole syntax. She is co-author, with Liliane Haegeman, of English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), and, with Jacqueline Lecarme, of Time and Modality (Springer, 2008). Her publications are devoted to sentence grammar - extraposition, focus, anaphora, inalienable possession, tense, aspect, and modality - as well as to language and literature, including literary criticism, metrical theory and Free Indirect Discourse.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198739418 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198739419 |
| Title | Sentence and Discourse |
| Author | Jacqueline Gueron |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 334 |
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