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Syntax and Discourse

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Syntax and discourse refers to the study of the relationship between grammatical structure at the sentence level and the organization and interpretation of language across connected utterances or texts [1][2]. Syntax examines how words and phrases combine into grammatical constituents and clauses, whereas discourse analysis investigates how linguistic expressions relate to one another and to their communicative context beyond individual sentences [1]. Their interface concerns phenomena such as information structure, reference, anaphora, ellipsis, and the ways in which syntactic choices contribute to discourse coherence and the interpretation of connected language [2]. The term encompasses approaches that examine how grammatical form interacts with discourse-level organization without treating sentence structure and discourse structure as identical levels of linguistic analysis.

syntax discourse structure information structure discourse analysis
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  1. Nomi Erteschik-Shir. Information Structure; Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2007. [CrossRef]
  2. Daniel Altshuler; Robert Truswell. Coordination and the Syntax – Discourse Interface; Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2022. [CrossRef]
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