TY - BOOK ID - 77933079 TI - The syntax-discourse interface PY - 2005 SN - 1282156497 9786612156496 9027294208 9789027294203 9789027228048 9027228043 9027228043 9781282156494 661215649X PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Realization (Linguistics) KW - Dependency grammar. KW - Valence (Linguistics) KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Actualisation (Linguistics) KW - Manifestation (Linguistics) KW - Realisation (Linguistics) KW - Representation (Linguistics) KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Syntax. KW - Dependency grammar KW - Discourse analysis KW - Grammar KW - Pragmatics KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933079 AB - This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the establishment of dependency is discussed within a model of syntax-discourse correspondences that predicts an economy-based dependency hierarchy contingent on the level of representation at which the dependency is formed as well as the internal structure of the dependent element and its antecedent. Secondly, the model's predictions are substantiated by a series of experimental studies (conducted in English and Dutch) providing evidence from three sources of online sentence comprehension: reaction time studies, Broca's aphasia patient studies, and event-related brain potential studies. The findings show that dependencies are established at distinct levels of linguistic encoding (i.e. syntax or discourse) determined by the presence or absence of coargumenthood and the representation of the dependency-forming elements. ER -