In an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed light on the discrepancy which lies between the knowledge and production of conjunctions. The res...

t has been two decades since the publication of Davidson’s twin papers, I “Truth and Meaning” (1967) and “On Saying That” (1968). The first proposed that a Tarskian truth theory for a language L can be (the heart of) a theory of meaning for L. The second proposed a radically novel approach, the paratactic account, to the logical form of indirect discourse. The two proposals are related in a num...

This research aims at capturing and characterizing clause complexes in Lampung language by considering the structure conjunction. Here, it focuses on paratactic configuration. A configuration consists of two or more independent clauses is also recognized presence conjunction punctuation. The bridges signs a relation between among those clauses. There are six conjunctions found; ‘ghik’, ‘kidang’...

This paper analyzes the pronoun sto and its semantic syntactic derivatives in Prizren - South Morava dialect Sirinic county (Sirinicka Zupa), northern part of Sar Mountains. The focuses primarily on use sto, while are outlined mainly terms references to previous research subject. corpus shows that this lexeme has a wide range realizations it can be used as relativizer defining non-defining rela...

In “On Saying That,” Donald Davidson offered an analysis of indirect discourse that was meant to overcome the classic difficulties of a semantic theory of indirect discourse. Additionally, Davidson’s treatment of indirect discourse was purported to further his project of explaining meaning in a purely extensional, explicitly truth-defined, and compositional manner. The particular paratactic the...

The article focuses on the factors that cause linear and vertical sentence extension of multiple complex-compound sentences used in English fictional literature. Considering the sentence structure as a combination of 2 Units – paratactic and hypotactic the authors define the structural peculiarities of paratactic and hypotactic units including the number of clauses and its bonds. The extension ...