Current Views on the Relationship Between Cognitive Information Status and Sentence Structure
Over the past several decades a vast body of literature has emerged investigating the native speaker’s implicit ability to assess the appropriateness of a grammatical sentence in a particular context. The present paper attempts to examine some of the most influential approaches that address the ques...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Vilnius University
2003-12-01
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| Series: | Kalbotyra |
| Online Access: | https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/23294 |
| Summary: | Over the past several decades a vast body of literature has emerged investigating the native speaker’s implicit ability to assess the appropriateness of a grammatical sentence in a particular context. The present paper attempts to examine some of the most influential approaches that address the question of how cognitive and pragmatic factors correlate with constituent order. In a field where so much literature has been written there is an urgent need to be very selective; the paper therefore focuses on very general tendencies, facts and assumptions that relate to the vast area of the present discussion. |
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| ISSN: | 1392-1517 2029-8315 |