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In my paper, I draw an overall picture of the "referential valencies" of a text, i.e. of what we could call the text's referential skeleton. Based on Italian evidence, I give examples of the many kinds of anaphoric, cataphoric and exophoric reference, including elliptical null forms, and I pay special attention to a phenomenon that has been very li...
In questo intervento analizzo la struttura e la complessità testuale di una serie di notiziari televisivi e radiofonici italiani e danesi, e metto a confronto testi paralleli italiani e danesi di altri generi. Mi baso su tre parametri numericamente misurabili e paragonabili e indicativi appunto della complessità di un testo: la lunghezza dei period...
In this paper, I describe some of the most distinct differences between typical endocentric and exocentric text structure, with particular reference to Danish and Italian respectively. I point to some of the phenomena which – in my experience as a teacher of Italian in Denmark for over 40 years – have been most problematic to Danish students of Ita...
This paper investigates text level differences in exo- and endocentric languages. It takes its point of departure in Italian and Danish anaphoric relations, distinguishing between coreferential, associative and resumptive anaphors and their distribution. The text informational value of the anaphors shows parallel characteristics to the lexical dist...
Resumptive anaphors encapsulate and hypostatise a whole text segment. This survey compares and categorises Italian and Danish resumptive anaphors in a comparable subcorpus of the “Europarl Corpus” (political speeches held in the European Parliament). The anaphors are morphologically subdivided in NPs and pro-forms and the NP anaphors are semantical...
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This paper presents the so-called Endo- and Exocentric Verb Typology advanced by the Danish research group TYPOlex. The typology is partly based on Talmy’s lexicalization patterns for motion verbs with some elaboration and refinement of the manner – path distinction, and it is generalized to comprise Germanic and Romance verbs (and nouns) as a whol...
This paper presents and discusses a description of topicality and text pragmatic prominence of nominal discourse referents based on four hierarchies. These hierarchies concern the referent with respect to (a) its identifiability (± identifiable), (b) its referentiality (e.g. deictic, specific/non-specific, and generic reference), (c) its degree of...
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This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on Dependency Linguistics held in Barcelona. The contribut...
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We propose a unified model of syntax and discourse in which text structure is viewed as a tree structure augmented with anaphoric relations and other secondary relations. We describe how the model accounts for discourse connectives and the syntax-discourse-semantics interface. Our model is dependency-based, ie, words are the basic building blocks i...
This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determ...
This paper investigates the use and function of the apposition. On the basis of a general distinction between “indicative” constituents (subjects, objects and complements of prepositions, whose text pragmatic function is to indicate - introduce or reiterate - text referents) and “predicative” constituents (predicatives and attributives, which descr...
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This paper argues that translators can greatly benefit from contrastive studies of discourse structure. Cross-linguistic studies of Italian and Danish point to significant typological differences in information packaging in the two languages, especially in their use of deverbalisation. Italian sentences tend to include a larger number of Elementary...
The Copenhagen Dependency Treebanks (CDT) are a set of parallel treebanks for Danish, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. One of the main objectives of the CDT is to arrive at a unified description and annotation system for syntax, morphology, discourse, and anaphora. The treebanks are currently in the process of being annotated for these levels...
In questo contributo si riesaminano le strutture di lessicalizzazione dei verbi romanzi e germanici alla luce delle conclusioni di Talmy (1985; 2001), secondo cui i verbi di movimento lessicalizzano universalmente, oltre alla componente semantica MOVIMENTO, o DIREZIONE (nelle lingue romanze), o MODO (nelle lingue germaniche), o FIGURA (per esempio...
This paper examines some typological differences in the discourse structure of Italian and Danish. The results of the study indicate that there are significant differences in information packing in the two languages, especially in their use of deverbalisation. Italian sentences tend to include a larger number of Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs), e...
The article examines the history and the present situation regarding the teaching of Italian in Den-mark. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was common for Danish artists and aristocrats to take a Grand Tour and often stay in Italy for several years. However, at that time language studies in Denmark were dominated by another language of culture, na...
