Discourse Principles in Grammar: The Thetic/Categorical Dichotomy

Discourse Principles in Grammar: The Thetic/Categorical Dichotomy

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This paper deals with communication needs and grammar. For linguists discovering the grammatical systems of languages it is most exciting to find out in which respect the grammars of languages all over the world resemble each other and in which respect they differ, because this gives us further insi...

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Main Author: Anne Schwarz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2010-12-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3425
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spelling doaj-0bba6b7f59b842bd97eaa5c55426179f2021-09-16T01:46:15ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402010-12-019Discourse Principles in Grammar: The Thetic/Categorical DichotomyAnne Schwarz0James Cook UniversityThis paper deals with communication needs and grammar. For linguists discovering the grammatical systems of languages it is most exciting to find out in which respect the grammars of languages all over the world resemble each other and in which respect they differ, because this gives us further insights into the variety and basic principles of human communication and human language. Sometimes we find a common basis behind quite different grammatical disguises and the range of variation helps us to identify the shared core elements across the languages, as in the case I want to discuss here.https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3425
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description This paper deals with communication needs and grammar. For linguists discovering the grammatical systems of languages it is most exciting to find out in which respect the grammars of languages all over the world resemble each other and in which respect they differ, because this gives us further insights into the variety and basic principles of human communication and human language. Sometimes we find a common basis behind quite different grammatical disguises and the range of variation helps us to identify the shared core elements across the languages, as in the case I want to discuss here.
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