What kind of Discourse-old is this:
C. Have you send the resume?
T: Yeah. Both the resume and the recommendation letters.
a) Alternate values.
b) Higher value.
c) Lower value
b) Higher value.
Existential there-sentences:
a) PVNP is constrained to represent entities that are not familiar to hearer.
b)Appears on the canonical subject position.
c)Represents information that is new.
a) PVNP is constrained to represent entities that are not familiar to hearer.
What kind of Discourse-old is this:
G: Do you like this saga (lord of the rings)?
M: Yeah, the two towers I really like.
a) Alternate values.
b) Higher value.
c) Lower value.
c) Lower value.
Mention the 3 basic approaches by Prince (1992):
a) Focus / Poset, Old to the discourse vs Old to the hearer, Linking relationships.
b) Focus / Presupposition, New to the discourse vs New to the hearer, Linking relations.
b) Focus / Presupposition, New to the discourse vs New to the hearer, Linking relations.
Postposing:
a) Anchoring and Tigger.
b)Any construction in which a lexically governed phrasal constituent appears.
c)It is a construction sharing common syntactic structure.
B) Any construction in which a lexically governed phrasal constituent appears.
Preposing:
a) It is new information and old information.
b) It is any construction in which a lexically governed phrasal constituent.
c)It is a class of construction sharing common syntactic structure.
C) It is a class of construction sharing common syntactic structure.
What means POSET:
a) partially ordered set.
b) partially overhead set.
c) partially overlook set.
a) partially ordered set.
PVNP:
a) Postverbal noun problems.
b) Preverval noun phrase.
c) Postverbal noun phrase.
c) Postverbal noun phrase.
Discourse old is..
a) Is that which has been evoked in the prior discourse.
b) Is that which the speaker believes to be present within the hearer’s knowledge store.
c) Both. (a & b)
a) Is that which has been evoked in the prior discourse.
Presentational there-sentences:
a) Represents information that is given.
b) PVNP there-sentences is both hearer-new and discourse-new.
c)There-sentences are unnacceptable.
b) PVNP there-sentences is both hearer-new and discourse-new.