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2 September 2010

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Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Russell S. Tomlin

1987. viii, 512 pp.
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978 90 272 2882 6 / EUR 156.00
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Table of contents

Preface
vii
Narrative connectives in Sùpyìré
Robert Carlson
1
Cognitive constraints on information flow
Wallace Chafe
21
Transitivity in grammar and cognition
Scott DeLancey
53
Actions and procedural directions
Peter Dixon
69
Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition
Katherine Demuth
91
Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding
Mary Erbaugh
109
The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative
Vanessa Flashner
131
Anaphora in popular written English narratives
Barbara A. Fox
157
Beyond foreground and background
T. Givón
175
The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories
Lorraine E. Kumpf
189
On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse
Knud Lambrecht
217
On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourse
Lynell Marchese
263
Is basic word order universal?
Marianne Mithun
281
Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience
Andrew Pawley
329
Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century
Ellen Rafferty
361
The functional distribution of preposed and postposed ‘if’ and ‘when’ clauses in written discourse
Violeta Ramsey
383
“Vividness” and “narrative events” in Japanese conversational narratives
Polly E. Szatrowski
409
“Subordination” and narrative event structure
Sandra A. Thompson
435
Linguistic reflections of cognitive events
Russell S. Tomlin
455
Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond
Benji Wald
481