Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

I Mushin; Brett Baker

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

I Mushin (Editor), Brett Baker (Editor)

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One of the major functions of grammar for its speakers is the production of coherent and contextually meaningful discourse. Linguists have long been interested in the reciprocal questions of how grammatical structures are employed to express discourse structure and coherence, and how the pressures of communication in actual language use may influence the development of grammar. As a discourse unfolds, entities are introduced, reintroduced and referred to, and it is well recognised that languages have formal means of signalling both information status and the identity of referents. This theme in linguistic research can be classified into two "subthemes", both of which are explored in this volume: "information packaging" and "referent-tracking".

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Number of pages	239
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	978-90-272-0571-1
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Name	Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)
No.	104

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Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

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