Trauma and referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s famine novels

Referentiality in Spanish CPs

In this paper, we discuss the CP domain of embedded clauses in Spanish, specifically in the realm of que+embedded question constructions first discussed in Plann 1982. We argue for the existence of (at least) two distinct CP layers (following previous work by Lahiri (2002) Demonte & FernándezSoriano (2009), and Suñer (1991, 1993)). Following Suñer (1991, 1993), we argue that there are two seman...

Some remarks on referentiality

The main focus of this paper is on two issues: which, if any, NPs can be used to refer, and which, if any, NPs can be (truthfully) said to refer all by themselves. It is evident just from this statement that we will be dealing with two distinct reference relations – a pragmatic relation holding among speakers, expressions, and entities out in the world (so to speak); and a semantic relation hol...

norms and constraints in translating childrens novels from english into persian

abstract foreign and iranian cultures are far distinct in the constraints imposed on writing and translating for children, since the iranian literary system is mainly concerned with cultural and religious instructions which lead to manipulation of translated texts. this study sought to identify the cultural and social constraints and norms which determined the strategies applied in the transl...

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Specificity , Referentiality and Discourse Prominence : German

There are various notions of specificity, ranging from Fodor & Sag’s (1982) referentiality view to Givón’s (1983) discourse prominence view. Ionin (2006) discusses the relation between these two perspectives by analyzing the English indefinite this. She represents indefinite this as a referential operator in the sense of Fodor & Sag (1982), but also adds the felicity condition of “noteworthines...