'Subject' and referent tracking : arguments for a discourse-based grammar of chinese
- This paper is the second in a series arguing for a discourse·based analysis of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there is a direct mapping between semantic role and grammatical function, and there are no relation-changing lexical rules such as passivization that can change that mapping. The correct assignment of semantic roles to the constituents of a discourse is done by the listener purely on the basis of the discourse structure and pragmatics (real world knowledge). Though grammatical analyses of certain constructions can be done on the sentence level, the sentence is generally not the central unit for understanding anaphora and grammatical relations in Chinese. Two related arguments are presented here: the question of 'subject' and the structure of discourse developed from an analysis of the nature of discourse referent tracking.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-378423 |
| URL: | http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/LaPolla_1988_Subject_and_referent_tracking_-_Arguments_for_a_discourse-based_grammar_of_Chinese.pdf |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics : Volume 1 |
| Publisher: | Dept. of Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Fresno, Calif. |
| Editor: | Joseph Emonds, P.J. Mistry, Vida Samiian, Linda Thornburg |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/07/15 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1988 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | California State University, Fresno |
| Release Date: | 2015/07/15 |
| GND Keyword: | Chinesisch; Grammatik; Grammatisches Subjekt |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 160 |
| Last Page: | 173 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 390261548 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
