Sentence examples for discourse function from inspiring English sources

Of course these brief remarks about the discourse function of tense and aspect barely touch the tip of the iceberg.

Apart from in-depth knowledge and experience of their own specialty, they offer a broader scientific knowledge base, a scientist?s curiosity, and an insider?s understanding of how science and scientific discourse function.

Possibly construction grammars (e.g., Goldberg 2003), which emphasize the coupling between the entrenched patterns of language (including ordinary phrase structure, clichés, and idioms) and their meanings and discourse function, will provide a conceptual basis for building statistical models of language that are sufficiently accurate to enable more nearly human-like parsing accuracy.

The paper examines the discourse functions of the pronoun we in a corpus of 55 reports written by Spanish students.

And in the fifth version the autonomy of syntax is taken to deny that syntactic patterning can be explained in terms of meaning or discourse functions.

This paper reports findings from a study on the discourse functions of basic wh-clefts such as what our brains do is complicated information processing in 160 lectures drawn from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus.

The main concern of this paper will be to disentangle the semantics and discourse functions of this type of adverbs and to propose how they can be accounted for using the FDG architecture.

That is, the verbs that exhibit parenthetical uses do not constitute the main point of an utterance, but serve discourse functions like evidentiality, though syntactically they remain in the same position as an ordinary embedding verb.

As O'Halloran (1999: 27) states, "verbal discourse functions to describe commonsense reality, visual display connects our physiological perceptions to this reality and in combination with metaphorical shifts, creates new entities which are intuitively accessible".

Paradigmatic functionalists like Tomlin, Van Valin and MacWhinney could in principle hold that the explanation of syntactic form, for example, will ultimately be in terms of discourse functions and semantics, but still accept that syntactic categories cannot be reduced to non-linguistic ones.

First person pronouns are a rhetorical strategy which allows researchers to perform different discourse functions in the text, through which they construct a convincing argument that persuades readers of the validity and novelty of their claims and of their own competence.