Towards a discourse-pragmatic description of left-dislocation in biblical Hebrew
What it is about
Not read: the PDF could not be fetched. From the title and the author's later papers on the same topic (2014, 2016, also in our library): left dislocation is a construction where a noun phrase stands before the clause and is taken up inside it by a resumptive pronoun or suffix. The thesis describes its discourse-pragmatic functions in a cognitive framework (Lambrecht's activation states of referents): introducing or re-activating a referent as topic, marking contrast, or setting a frame for what follows. Check against the text, and compare with the 2014 and 2016 cards.
Ideas
- I1. (to check) Detect left dislocations in the Torah trees: a clause-initial NP followed by a clause containing a co-referent pronoun or suffix (UD
dislocated); count them and list them by book and genre. - I2. (to check) For each dislocated NP, measure the distance (in clauses) to its previous mention: none (new), far (re-activation), near (contrast or framing). Report the distribution as the functional profile.
- I3. In the event reader, a dislocated NP sets the topic of the following clause(s); resolve the resumptive pronoun to it.
For Mova
I1 is a converter check in tools/macula (dislocated); I2 a measure for Syntax: the clause and the sentence (dislocation) and 09-discourse.md; I3 applies to coreference in the world reader. Re-read once the PDF is in.
Cite
@inproceedings{westbury2010discourse,
title = {{Towards a discourse-pragmatic description of left-dislocation in biblical Hebrew}},
author = {Westbury, Josh},
booktitle = {SUNScholar (Stellenbosch University)},
year = {2010},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5258}
}This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2010-westbury-towards-discourse-pragmatic-description-left/