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| pubmed-article:9015951 | rdf:type | pubmed:Citation | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | lifeskim:mentions | umls-concept:C2603343 | lld:lifeskim |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:dateCreated | 1997-3-12 | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:abstractText | In this paper we examine constraints on the use of seven sentence-types permitting the non-canonical appearance of the logical subject in post-verbal position: inversion in English and in Farsi, presentational and existential there-sentences in English, presentational ci-sentences and subject inversion in Italian, and es+subject postposing in Yiddish. We show that these sentence-types share a common discourse constraint: each requires the NP in non-canonical (i.e. postposed) position to represent information that is unfamiliar in some sense. The discourse function of postposing is contrasted with that of another sentence-type involving post-verbal subjects: right-dislocation in English. Unlike postposed NPs, the marked NP of English right-dislocation represents information that is familiar within the discourse: concomitantly, a pronoun coreferential with the marked constituent appears in this constituent's canonical position. We argue, then, that the function of postposing is to place subjects representing unfamiliar information in sentence-final position. On this analysis the functional difference between these sentence-types and English right-dislocation can be straightforwardly accounted for. Given that the marked NP of right-dislocation is coreferential with an intrasentential pronoun, we would expect this NP to represent a discourse-old entity, as do anaphoric pronouns in general. Thus, it is not accidental that right-dislocation does not serve to keep unfamiliar information out of subject position; the presence of the pronoun rules out such a function. | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:grant | http://linkedlifedata.com/r... | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:language | eng | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:journal | http://linkedlifedata.com/r... | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:citationSubset | IM | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:status | MEDLINE | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:issn | 0023-8309 | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:author | pubmed-author:WardGG | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:author | pubmed-author:BirnerB JBJ | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:issnType | lld:pubmed | |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:volume | 39 ( Pt 2-3) | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:owner | NLM | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:authorsComplete | Y | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:pagination | 113-42 | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:dateRevised | 2007-11-14 | lld:pubmed |
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| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:articleTitle | A crosslinguistic study of postposing in discourse. | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:affiliation | University of Pennsylvania. betty@linc.cis.upenn.edu | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:publicationType | Journal Article | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:publicationType | Comparative Study | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:publicationType | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. | lld:pubmed |
| pubmed-article:9015951 | pubmed:publicationType | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | lld:pubmed |