Passives, Pronouns, and Themes and Rhemes.

Hinds, John

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Passives, Pronouns, and Themes and Rhemes

Hinds, John

Glossa, 9, 1, 79-106, 75

Kuno's direct discourse analysis is examined and rejected, and the Prague School concepts of theme and rheme are shown to be relevant to Kuno's data and additional data. It is further shown that an incompatible application of two or more transformations produces sentences that tend to be bad. (SC)

Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theory, Pronouns, Semantics, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

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