Eintrag

Titel

The Relation Accompanying Circumstance Across Languages: Conflict between Linguistic Expression and Discourse Subordination?

Personen

Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

Jahr

2005

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

SPRIK-reports
Reports of the project Languages in Contrast (Språk i kontrast)

Seiten

1 - 13

Band

32

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Norwegisch

Schlagwörter

Koordination
Pragmatik
Psycholinguistik
Syntax

Abstract

In the present paper, we approach the topic of discourse relations from a cross-linguistic perspective, motivated in part by the question of how syntactic choice constrains discourse structure and what role rhetorical relations plays for translation choice. Existing theories and analyses in the literature, when applied to authentic cross-linguistic data, have unveiled interesting differences across languages with respect to the discourse potential of different syntactic structures, particularly syntactic coordination. It seems to us that these cross-linguistic observations are important and must be taken into account in a linguistic analysis of discourse structure. The linguistic structure we have extracted for our observations is the 'ing'-participial adjunct in English, which relates to its matrix clause by what is sometimes called Accompanying Circumstance. We discuss such data from a trilingual perspective, including English, German and Norwegian, with a view to the discourse properties of the syntactic manifestations in the three languages, and with our theoretical questions regarding discourse relations in mind.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/37012