Robert E Longacre
Biographic Data
| ID | 131885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Longacre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Longacre |
| SIGNATURE | LONGACRE R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Representation of Speech in Biblical Narrative
The dynamics of reported dialogue in narrative
The storyline of a narrative may be advanced as much by reported dialogue as by the recital of other sorts of interaction. In reported dialogue the main functions of the formula of quotation (QF) is to tie the speech acts which consitute dialogue explicitly into the storyline, and to identify the speakers and addressees as participants within the slate of participants which characterizes the story. There is a bewildering variety of ways in which …
The Pragmatics of Word Order
Storyline Concerns and Word Order Typology in East and West Africa
Storyline Concerns and Word Order Typology 6. Amharic(Ethio-Semitic) 56 6.1. The storyline scheme (upper bands) 56 6.2. Rank-shifting of gerunds 59 6.3. The storyline scheme (lower bands) 60 6.4. Peak-marking features 62 7. Silti (Ethio-Semitic) 62
Two hypotheses regarding text generation and analysis
It is proposed here that in any language and for any discourse type within that language the verb forms/clause structures can be arranged in a rank scheme in which a mainline of discourse development is encoded by a characteristic construction (or a very limited set of constructions) while lines of subsidiary development, which represent progressive degrees of departure from the mainline, are encoded in other constructions. It is further proposed…
The Semantics of the Storyline in East and West Africa
This paper starts out with the definition and exemplification of storyline and non-storyline elements in narrative with emphasis on their structural and semantic functions as narrative universal. The schema thus developed is then confronted with languages of diverse word order typologies: SOV (Ethiopia), VSO (certain Nilotic languages of Sudan), and SVO (a number of West African languages). The major storyline consideration in the Ethiopian langu…
Discourse as music
Linguistic concepts
Linguistic concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics by Kenneth L. Pike Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 146
Tagmemics
The Discourse of the Flood Narrative
This paper approaches the Genesis Flood Narrative from the standpoint of contemporary discourse analysis. As a developing discipline within linguistics, discourse analysis is currently being applied to a variety of texts in many languages—from Western Europe to folk cultures. The aim has been to apply the techniques of discourse analysis in a somewhat routine way to the Flood Narrative without resort to ad hoc procedures. Discourse analysis antic…
Discourse Grammar
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Sentence Structure as a Statement Calculus
Sentence (as opposed to clause) structure involves a combination of predications into larger units much as in the statement calculus of formal logic, but requires a richer apparatus. An over-all taxonomic scheme—relevant to sentence structures in many parts of the world—is presented. After showing how structurally distinct parts of the sentence are relevant to the structure of paragraphs and discourses, a detailed classification of English senten…
Parametric linguistics
Proto-Quechumaran
Similarities between Aymara and contiguous Quechua dialects have been considered by linguists simply as evidence of borrowing. This study, based on the application of standard comparative procedure to 520 Quechua sets and 255 Quechua-Aymara sets, gives evidence rather for genetic relationship between the two languages. A section on isoglosses clarifies the relationship between the northern and southern areas of the Quechua-speaking territory and …
Proto-Quechumaran
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Reply to Postal's Review of Grammar Discovery Procedures
Trique Clause and Sentence
On Linguistic Affinities of Amuzgo
Grammar Discovery Procedures
Proto-Chatino Phonology
Some Fundamental Insights of Tagmemics
Four fundamental insights of tagmemics are the correlativity of function and set, the search for constructions of maximum relevance, the emphasis on explicit, systemic hierarchy, and the concept of relatedness in logical space (with transformation only one of the possible parameters which relate constructions). Developing these points gives an indirect answer to certain recent criticisms
Prolegomena to Lexical Structure
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/2771
Syntactic Matrices in Ostuacan Zoque
String Analysis of Sentence Structure
Philippine discourse and paragraph studies in memory of Betty McLachlin
It is the fate of those, who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect
Proto-Quechumaran
Similarities between Aymara and contiguous Quechua dialects have been considered by linguists simply as evidence of borrowing. This study, based on the application of standard comparative procedure to 520 Quechua sets and 255 Quechua-Aymara sets, gives evidence rather for genetic relationship between the two languages. A section on isoglosses clarifies the relationship between the northern and southern areas of the Quechua-speaking territory and …
Proto-Chatino Phonology
String Constituent Analysis
Immediate constituent analysis is based on an implicit assumption that linguistic structures—especially syntactic structures—are layered structures amenable to analysis by progressive dichotomous cutting. This paper suggests an alternative assumption, viz., that some linguistic structures are layered while others are ordered like beads on a string. Negatively this alternative assumption leads to a rejection of conventional immediate constituent a…
The dynamics of reported dialogue in narrative
The storyline of a narrative may be advanced as much by reported dialogue as by the recital of other sorts of interaction. In reported dialogue the main functions of the formula of quotation (QF) is to tie the speech acts which consitute dialogue explicitly into the storyline, and to identify the speakers and addressees as participants within the slate of participants which characterizes the story. There is a bewildering variety of ways in which …
Proto-Mixtec Phonology
Trique Clause and Sentence
On Linguistic Affinities of Amuzgo
Amplification of Gudschinsky's Proto-Popolocan-Mixtecan
Swadesh's Macro-Mixtecan Hypothesis
Two hypotheses regarding text generation and analysis
It is proposed here that in any language and for any discourse type within that language the verb forms/clause structures can be arranged in a rank scheme in which a mainline of discourse development is encoded by a characteristic construction (or a very limited set of constructions) while lines of subsidiary development, which represent progressive degrees of departure from the mainline, are encoded in other constructions. It is further proposed…
Some Fundamental Insights of Tagmemics
Four fundamental insights of tagmemics are the correlativity of function and set, the search for constructions of maximum relevance, the emphasis on explicit, systemic hierarchy, and the concept of relatedness in logical space (with transformation only one of the possible parameters which relate constructions). Developing these points gives an indirect answer to certain recent criticisms
Prolegomena to Lexical Structure
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/2771
The Semantics of the Storyline in East and West Africa
This paper starts out with the definition and exemplification of storyline and non-storyline elements in narrative with emphasis on their structural and semantic functions as narrative universal. The schema thus developed is then confronted with languages of diverse word order typologies: SOV (Ethiopia), VSO (certain Nilotic languages of Sudan), and SVO (a number of West African languages). The major storyline consideration in the Ethiopian langu…
Syntactic Matrices in Ostuacan Zoque
String Analysis of Sentence Structure
Mapas de clasificacion linguistica de Mexico y las Americas
Items in Context
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/6748
Language and Reality
Language and Reality
Quality and Quantity in Cree Vowels
The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail allophonic variation in Cree vowels so as to exhibit certain correlations between quality and quantity. The phonemically short vowels have considerable allophonic variation and this paper will be concerned to a large degree with their description. The pertinent conditioning factors will be stated in terms of (a) particular consonants preceding or following the vowel sounds in questions, and (b) t…
Proto-Mixtecan
Items in Context
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/6748
Linguistics
Proto-Mixtec Phonology
String Constituent Analysis
Immediate constituent analysis is based on an implicit assumption that linguistic structures—especially syntactic structures—are layered structures amenable to analysis by progressive dichotomous cutting. This paper suggests an alternative assumption, viz., that some linguistic structures are layered while others are ordered like beads on a string. Negatively this alternative assumption leads to a rejection of conventional immediate constituent a…
Mapas de clasificacion linguistica de Mexico y las Americas
Swadesh's Macro-Mixtecan Hypothesis
Amplification of Gudschinsky's Proto-Popolocan-Mixtecan
Syntactic Matrices in Ostuacan Zoque
String Analysis of Sentence Structure
Prolegomena to Lexical Structure
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/2771
Grammar Discovery Procedures
Proto-Chatino Phonology
Some Fundamental Insights of Tagmemics
Four fundamental insights of tagmemics are the correlativity of function and set, the search for constructions of maximum relevance, the emphasis on explicit, systemic hierarchy, and the concept of relatedness in logical space (with transformation only one of the possible parameters which relate constructions). Developing these points gives an indirect answer to certain recent criticisms
Trique Clause and Sentence
On Linguistic Affinities of Amuzgo
Reply to Postal's Review of Grammar Discovery Procedures
Proto-Quechumaran
Similarities between Aymara and contiguous Quechua dialects have been considered by linguists simply as evidence of borrowing. This study, based on the application of standard comparative procedure to 520 Quechua sets and 255 Quechua-Aymara sets, gives evidence rather for genetic relationship between the two languages. A section on isoglosses clarifies the relationship between the northern and southern areas of the Quechua-speaking territory and …
Proto-Quechumaran
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Parametric linguistics
Sentence Structure as a Statement Calculus
Sentence (as opposed to clause) structure involves a combination of predications into larger units much as in the statement calculus of formal logic, but requires a richer apparatus. An over-all taxonomic scheme—relevant to sentence structures in many parts of the world—is presented. After showing how structurally distinct parts of the sentence are relevant to the structure of paragraphs and discourses, a detailed classification of English senten…
Discourse Grammar
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
The Discourse of the Flood Narrative
This paper approaches the Genesis Flood Narrative from the standpoint of contemporary discourse analysis. As a developing discipline within linguistics, discourse analysis is currently being applied to a variety of texts in many languages—from Western Europe to folk cultures. The aim has been to apply the techniques of discourse analysis in a somewhat routine way to the Flood Narrative without resort to ad hoc procedures. Discourse analysis antic…
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