Temporal Discourse Markers And The Flow Of Events
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چکیده
• Temporal discourse markers such as after, before or while are commonly described as triggers for discourse relations expressing a temporal relation (Mann and Thompson, 1987; Knott, 1996). However, only little research has been done regarding the interaction of such discourse markers with the context within a multi-sentence discourse. Lascarides & Oberlander (1993), for instance, note that sentences containing temporal connectives expressing the same temporal structure may not describe a coherent discourse in certain contexts. Along these lines a similar theory was developed by de Swart (1994) wrt. temporal adverbials and also applied to temporal clauses. She points out that the topic/focus structure has to be taken into account, especially when apreposed syntactic structure as in (1) is read:
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