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Givon, T.; And Others – 1985
A study of the cognitive processes involved in achieving coherence in discourse examined a major factor affecting the accessibility of referents: the length of absence of the referent from the distribution of different types of grammatical referential devices (definite nouns and anaphoric pronouns) in discourse. Six versions of a set of twenty…
Descriptors: Coherence, Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Discourse Analysis
Derbyshire, Desmond C., Ed. – 1984
Six papers resulting from the fieldwork projects of members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics program at the University of North Dakota include: "A Relational Grammar Approach to Kera Syntax" (Janet K. Camburn), a syntactic study of an Afroasiatic language; "Clitic Doubling and M-Chains in Piraha" (Dan Everett), examining…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar