Showing papers by "Marie-Laure Ryan published in 1979"
TL;DR: This paper argues that the knowledge of such rules should be viewed as a part of the speaker's linguistic competence, and surveys the various types of rules necessary in a genre theory, examines the problems of their formulation in the framework of a semantically based transformational text grammar, and offers a discussion of their hermeneutic function.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simplification of generative semantics is proposed, in which an event to follow another in time when the beginning of the second event follows the start of the first is considered.
Abstract: ion? Do the deep structures posited by generative semanticists actually reach the level where the meaning of utterances is entirely and unambiguously specified or are they merely another intermediate level of representation? The simplification I propose is thus a way of using the in sights provided by generative semantics, while staying out of its controversies. 10 Adopting Prince's definition (1973:23), I will consider an event to follow another in time when the beginning of the second event follows the beginning of the first. Thus the connector indicating chronological sequence may (as in 1) or may not (as in 2) imply that the first event is over when the second begins. (1) John drank a beer. Then (= after he drank a beer) he drank a whisky. (2) John was drunk. Then (=after the beginning of his being drunk) he decided to stop drinking. 11 Generally the first argument of proposition m is animate (and consequently an argument of n is also animate). But this is not a necessary condition. Consider the story: 'The stables were dirty. Then Hercules ran a river through the stables. Then as a result the stables were clean." 12 When the option of introducing propositions before m is used, m must be linked to m-1 by a predicate indicating chronological sequence, simultaneity or causation (see rule 13). Thus on Figure 2 m should be more properly represented as shown below, and rule 3 should read: "The highest predicate of the part of proposition m that contains event m must have either a [4stative] or a [4mental operation] feature.
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