Issues In Linguistic Segmentation
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This paper addresses discourse structure from the perspective of understanding. It would perhaps help us understand the na,ture of discourse relatiolls il" we better understood what units of a text. can be related to one a.nother. In Olle ma.jor theory of discourse structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann &: Thompson 1988; Imrea.l'ter simply RS'T), the smallest possible linguistic units that can lmrtMl)ate in a rhetorical rela.tion a,re called units, and "are essentially clauses, except that clausal subjects a.nd complenlents a.nd restricte(l relative clauses are considered as parts of their host clause units rather than as sepa, rate units" [p. 248]. But both Dale and Meteer (in these proceedings) point out that rhetorical relations can appear w i t h i n clausal units. (DMe's argument will be discussed at the end of" this paper.) For example, the relation that is expressed in two clauses in (1.2) is expressed in only one clause in (1.1)(from Meteer, these proceedings):
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