Generating narratives : interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies

Generating narratives : interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies / by Klaus Wedekind.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wedekind, Klaus
Format: eBook
Language:Cushitic
Sidamo
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 52.
Subjects:
Cushitic languages > Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Part I Introduction and background
  • Section A Guides for the reader
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A survey of the study
  • 3. Symbols and abbreviations
  • 4. On reading the text charts
  • Section B Background of the study
  • 1. Acknowledgments to those who provided language data
  • 2. The context of this study
  • 3. Brief notes on the language areas and the ethnic groups
  • 4. Gada and the Gedeo way of life today
  • 5. Linguistic descriptions of the three Highland East Cushitic languages
  • 6. The classification of Sidamo, Gedeo and Burji
  • Section C Typological characteristics1. Phonological characteristics
  • 2. Morphophonemic characteristics
  • 3. Morphological characteristics
  • 4. Morpho-syntactic strategies
  • 5. Noun phrases in text and syntax
  • 6. An introduction to complex structures
  • 7. A sample grammar of two complex sentences (Gedeo)
  • 8. Representation of complex structures
  • 9. Representation of text scores with transitions
  • Section D Perspectives on discourse and text generation
  • 1. The functional grammar model of Simon Dik
  • 2. Text generation
  • 3. Analysis of discourses of the narrative genre4. Psychology of sentence production
  • Section E The present approach
  • 1. Comparison of models
  • 2. The components of narratives
  • 3. The pragmatic notions “theme, topic, focusâ€? and “codaâ€?
  • Part II Gedeo narratives
  • Section A Gedeo Text A: “A Story of Hyenasâ€?
  • 1. The worlds of texts as exemplified in text A
  • 2. Steps in the production of text A
  • 3. Text rules: The “Semantic Frames Rosterâ€? of text A
  • 4. The complete “Semantic Frames Rosterâ€? of text A with signals
  • 5. The “Hyenaâ€? narrative in four surface versions6. Generating different surface forms for the “sameâ€? text
  • Section B Gedeo Text B: “Nine Hyenas and One Lionâ€?
  • 1. Remarks on text B
  • 2. Notes on the lexicon of text B
  • 3. Generating text B
  • 4. The charts of text B
  • 5. Actual surface form of text B
  • 6. Hesitation patterns and notional units in text B
  • Section C Gedeo-texts C1, C2 and C3: “A House on Fireâ€?
  • 1. Remarks on texts C1, C2, and C3
  • 2. Generating texts C1, C2, and C3: A note on functors
  • 3. Text rules of texts C1, C2 and C34. On the charts of text texts C1, C2 and C3
  • 5. The actual surface forms of texts C1, C2 and C3
  • Part III Burji narratives
  • Section A Burji Text A: “Jackal and Hyenaâ€?
  • 1. Overall pattern and script of Burji Text A
  • 2. The lexicon of Burji Text A
  • 3. Designing the story time-line
  • 4. Remarks on the charts of Burji Text A
  • 5. The actual surface form of Burji Text A
  • 6. Comparison of oral and written versions
  • Section B Burji Text B: “A Journey to Debre Zeytâ€?
  • 1. Remarks on Burji Text B

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