accusative and ergative languages

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Stefan and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ralf-Stefan Georg <Georg at home.ivm.de>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 6:42 AM

Pat wrote:

>> In English, I can say: "John hit me, and he went away" or "I hit John and he
>> went away". What is the discourse cohesion strategy for English?

R-S wrote:

> Anaphora.

Pat writes:

Well, 'anaphora' is primarily a rhetorical device; my dictionary, however,
does acknowledge the use of 'anaphora' in a grammatical sense although Larry
seems to prefer "anaphor" in the grammatical and, I presume (but do not
know), 'anaphora' in the rhetorical sense.

Since "discourse cohesion strategy" is not defined in Larry's dictionary, I
have no idea exactly how one will want to define it. Perhaps 'anaphors' are
excluded; perhaps not.

Pat

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