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Abstract
The present work attempts to examine the relationship between grammar and discourse. (i) First, it compares
Warrongo (an ergative language that has antipassives and an S/O pivot) and English (an accusative language that has passives and
an S/A pivot). Despite these polar opposite morphosyntactic characteristics, Warrongo and English behave almost in the same way in
discourse – in terms of new mentions, lexical mentions and topic continuity. There are, however, two differences in discourse.
First, Warrongo antipassives and S/O pivot have much higher functional loads than English passives and S/A pivot. Second, Warrongo
antipassives have a use that English passives do not have. (ii) Then, the present work shows that grammar and discourse are not
independent of each other and that they share one principle. The hierarchy of “O > S > A” is attested in grammar and
discourse crosslinguistically and irrespective of the morphosyntactic types of the languages concerned.
本文试图探讨语法与语篇之间的关系。(1)首先，比较了瓦朗戈语(一种否定语，有反被动语和S/O支点)和英语(一种宾格语，有被动语和S/O支点)。尽管有这些截然相反的形态句法特征，Warrongo语和英语在话语中的表现几乎是相同的——在新提及、词汇提及和话题连续性方面。然而，在话语上有两点不同。首先，Warrongo语被动语和S/O枢轴比英语被动语和S/A枢轴具有更高的功能负荷。其次，瓦朗戈语的反被动语态有英语被动语态所没有的用法。(ii)然后，目前的工作表明，语法和语篇不是相互独立的，它们共享一个原则。“O > S > A”的层次结构在语法和语篇中得到了交叉语言学的证明，而与相关语言的形态句法类型无关。
期刊介绍：
Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.
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