CLAUSE RELATIONS句子关系分析

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1、CLAUSERELATIONS(TheoreticalFramework)1."Aclauserelationisthecognitiveprocesswherebyweinterpretthemeaningofasentenceorgroupofsentencesinthelightofitsadjoiningsentenceorgroupofsentences."(Winter)2."Aclauserelationisalsothecognitiveprocesswherebythechoiceswemakefromgrammar,lexisandinto

2、nationinthecreationofasentenceorgroupofsentencesaremadeinthelightofitsadjoiningsentenceorgroupofsentences."3."Wheretheclausesareindependent,wecanspeakof'sentencerelations'."4.4."Aclauseisasignificantsemanticunit.Asentencemay/canconsistofoneclauseormorethanoneclause."5.Relationbetwee

3、nclauses"Therelationsbetweenclausescannotberandomorhaphazard;themeaningofeveryclauseisfunctionofitsadjoiningclausesinitssentence."6."Everyclauseinadiscourseisinatleastonesemanticrelationwithatleastoneotherclauseorgroupofclausesinthatdiscourse."7."Clauserelationinadiscoursemaybebetwe

4、enclauses,groupsofclauses,orpartofclauses;inotherwordstherelationisnorespectofsyntacticboundaries,thoughitsrealizationisnecessarilyrootedinthegrammaroftheclause."8."Outofafinitenumberofclauserelationsaninfinitenumberofpatternsoforganizationmaybebuilt.Everydiscoursehasthereforeapoten

5、tiallyuniqueorganization."7.SemanticCompleteness"Theremustbetwokindsofcompletenessinourdefinitions--grammaticalcompletenessandsemanticcompleteness.Bysemanticcompletenesswemeanthattheclausemaybegrammaticallycompletebutnotsemanticcompleteandthisrequiresanadjoiningclauseorclausestocomp

6、leteitsmeaningasclause,inforexample,'Thisisaproblem'isgrammaticallycompletebutcannotbeunderstoodwithoutthenext(independent)clause;itraisestheobligatoryquestion:Whatisthisproblem?"8.Lexicalsignals“Therearevocabularyitems,lexicalrepetitionsthathelpsignaltherelationsthatholdthesentence

7、sofaparagraphandtheyalsosignaltheorganizationoflargerpassagesandwholediscourse.Winterdrawsattentiontowhatheterms`itemsofmetastructure`,thesearelexicalsignalswhichservealargerfunction.”11.LexicalAnticipation“Lexicalanticipationreferstoaclause/alexicalitemthatmakesexplicitinadvancewha

8、tthenextrelationwil