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Passives, Pronouns, and Themes and Rhemes
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Hinds, John – Glossa, 1975
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
Passives, Pronouns, and Themes and Rhemes.
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Hinds, John – 1974
The "direct discourse analysis" introduced by Susumu Kuno is examined and found to be inadequate. To account for the data Kuno discusses, as well as for related data, a new approach to transformations is suggested. By determining the function, rather than the form, of a transformation, certain predictions are possible. Primary is the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words