This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to ...

We propose a linguistically driven approach to represent discourse relations in Chinese text as sequences. We observe that certain surface characteristics of Chinese texts, such as the order of clauses, are overt markers of discourse structures, yet existing annotation proposals adapted from formalism constructed for English do not fully incorporate these characteristics. We present an annotate...

This study investigates the use of concessive discourse markers (DMs) in Jordanian Arabic (JA), particularly relying on a corpus analysis naturally occurring data. It argues that there are mainly two types concession JA: extrinsic and intrinsic concession. The shown to differ from each other with respect Kratzer’s compatibility propositions. Intrinsic occurs when speaker has manifest intention/...

The passage from linear text to hypertext poses the challenge of expressing discourse coherence in non-linear text, where linguistic discourse markers no longer work. While hypertext introduces new possibilities for discourse organisation, it also requires the use of new devices which can support the expression of coherence by exploiting the technical characteristics and expressive richness of ...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

Discourse markers is a word or phrase that useful in communication. This paper investigates the use of discourse research seminar. The objectives this study are to find out types and functions Markers used by participants researcher analyzed based on Brinton Theory Brinton’s Inventory Function Inventory. results contain two finding. First, there eleven DMs found Inventory, they well, okay, and,...

Discourse anaphora other than definite NPs have not received much attention in generation. This paper proposes a strategy for generating the additive particle also, a non-nominal discourse anaphor. The strategy is based on a treatment of additive particles as markers rather than presupposition triggers (following Zeevat (2003)) and two sorts of contextually given alternative sets.