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Discourse structure

Index of SIL publications on Discourse structure listed by country.

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General works

• ANDERSEN, T. David, author. 1994. "Genealogical prominence and the structure of Genesis."
• BARTSCH, Carla, author. 1994. Translating The Lord’s Prayer: Are we telling God what to do?.
• BEEKMAN, John, author. Available: 2010; Created: 1978. Toward an understanding of narrative structure.
• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1993. "Chiastic and homogeneous metrical structures enhanced by word patterns in Obadiah."
• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1995. "A cryptic chiastic acrostic: Finding meaning from structure in the poetry of Nahum."
• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1999. "The poetics of Habakkuk."
• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 2004. "Metrical and lexical patterning in the structure of Zephaniah."
• BLOOD, David L., author. 1979. Systemic summary statements in Acts.
• BRAINARD, Sherri, author. 1998. Review of: Studies in anaphora, Barbara Fox, editor.
• CLARK, David J., author. 1992. "Discourse structure in Haggai."
• CLARK, David J., author. 1994. "Vision and oracle in Zechariah 1-6."
• CLENDENEN, E. Ray, author. 1993. "Old Testament prophecy as hortatory text: Examples from Malachi."
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1997. Review of: Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the mental representation of discourse referents, by Knud Lambrecht.
• FEDUKOWSKI, Donna, author. 1985. "On the use of ‘hoste’ with the infinitive."
• FLOOR, Sebastian, author. 1993. Emphasis markers in Greek discourse: a study in Louw and Nida’s lexicon.
• FOX, Mary H., author. 1994. Holiness in Leviticus.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1975. "Signals of discourse structure in Koine."
• HANSFORD, Keir, author. 1992. "The underlying poetic structure of 1 John."
• HARM, Harry J., author. 1995. "The function of double entendre in Ruth three."
• HAYS, J. Daniel, author. 1995. "Verb forms in the expository discourse sections of Ecclesiastes."
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 2003. Review of: Evaluation in text: authorial stance and the construction of discourses, Susan Hunston and Geoff Thompson, editors.  
• HOLLENBACH, Bruce E.; WATTERS, James K., authors. 1998. Study guide on pragmatics and discourse.
• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1990. "Foreground information in narrative."
• HWANG, Shin Ja J.; MERRIFIELD, William R., editors. 1992. Language in context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre.  
• KEMPF, Stephen, author. 1993. "Genesis 3:14-19: Climax of the discourse?."
• KEMPF, Stephen, author. 1996. "Introducing the Garden of Eden: The structure and function of Genesis 2:4b-7."
• KUHN, Hanna, author. 1994. "Is Gen. 27-46 P or J? and how the answer affects translation."
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1992. Discourse features of New Testament Greek: a coursebook.
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2000. Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek.  
• LODE, Lars, author. 1994. "A discourse perspective on the significance of the Masoretic accents."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1977. "Tagmemics as a framework for discourse analysis."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1994. "‘Weqatal’ forms in biblical Hebrew prose: a discourse-modular approach."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 2003. "Discourse structure, verb forms, and archaism in Psalm 18."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 2006. "Discourse structure, verb forms, and archaism in Psalm 18."  
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 2010. "An ancient love poem: the Book of Canticles."  
• LUNN, Nick, author. 1996. Paronomastic constructions in Biblical Hebrew.
• MACHALI, Rochayah, author. 1999. "Shifts in discourse perspectives and the question of translation equivalence."
• MANN, William C.; THOMPSON, Sandra A., authors. 1992. "Relational discourse structure: a comparison of approaches to structuring texts by ‘contrast’."  
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2007. Review of: Constructions of intersubjectivity: discourse, syntax, and cognition, by Arie Verhagen.  
• NIDA, Eugene A., author. 1992. "Basic elements of discourse structures."  
• PARUNAK, H. Van Dyke, author. 1994. "Some discourse functions of prophetic quotation formulas in Jeremiah."
• QUICK, Philip A., author. 1993. "Resumptive repetition: a two-edged sword."
• REED, Jeffrey T., author. 1993. "Discourse features in New Testament letters, with special reference to the structure of 1 Timothy."
• REGT, Lénart J. de, author. 1996. "Domains of Biblical Hebrew discourse as a translation problem."
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 2009. A study of Persian discourse structure.
• SADOWSKA, Maria; ULATOWSKA, Hanna K., authors. 1992. "Some observations on aphasic texts."  
• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1992. "Notes on Haggai 2:10-21."
• SOME, Joachim, author. 2003. "Isaiah 7:1-17 revisited: a literary reading."
• SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1986. "Clause level focus in John’s Gospel and pragmatic structure."
• TERRY, Ralph Bruce, author. 1992. "Some aspects of the discourse structure of the book of James."
• TERRY, Ralph Bruce, author. 1996. "Patterns of discourse structure in 1 Corinthians."
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1996. Report on 1995 LSA Summer Institute.
• UNGER, Christoph, author. 1996. "The scope of discourse connectives: implications for discourse organization."
• WENDLAND, Ernst R., author. 1994. Oral-aural dynamics of the Word, with special reference to John 17.
• WENDLAND, Ernst R., author. 1995. "Seeking the path through a forest of symbols: a figurative and structural survey of the Song of Songs."
• WINTHER-NIELSEN, Nicolai, author. 1992. "‘In the beginning’ of Biblical Hebrew discourse: Genesis 1:1 and the fronted time expression."  
• ZOGBO, Lynell, author. 2003. "Rhetorical devices and structure "at the service" of the message: the final vision in the book of Amos."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• HEATH, Daniel; HEATH, Teresa, authors. 1994. "Preposed constituents and discontinuities in Makaa discourse."
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1994. "Discontinuities in coherent texts."
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa.  
• WILKENDORF, Patricia, author. 1994. "Cohesion and discontinuities in Nɔmaandɛ expository discourse."

Côte d’Ivoire

• EGNER, Inge, author. 1988. "Problemes d’interpretation fonctionnelle et d’integration hierarchique de l’échange-écho en Wobe (parler wɛɛ de Côte d’Ivoire)."
• EGNER, Inge, author. 1995. "Le rôle de l’intermédiaire dans l’échange de nouvelles en Godié (langue Kru de Côte d’Ivoire)."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa.  

Kenya

• LARSEN, Iver A., author. 1991. Boundary features.

Nigeria

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa.  

Togo

• HIGDON, Lee M., author. 1996. Tense, aspect, and modality in Gangam narrative and hortatory discourse.

Americas

Brazil

• ABBOTT, Miriam, author. 1976. "Estrutura oracional da língua Makúxi."  
• JACKSON, Evelyn, author. 1977. "Discurso processual em Waurá."
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1999. Ordering of propositions in OV languages in Brazil.
• ODMARK, Mary Ann, author. 1987. "A sobreposição e outras técnicas de repetição em paumarí."  
• POPOVICH, A. Harold, author. 1985. Discourse phonology of Maxakalí: a multilevel, multiunit approach.
• STUTE, Horst, author. 1986. "Constituent order, cohesion, and staging in Gavião."  
• STUTE, Horst, author. 1987. "A ordem, a coerência e a ensenação nas orações em gavião."  

Colombia

• SCHAUER, Stanley, author. 1975. Paragraphs in Yucuna discourse.

Guatemala

• OLTROGGE, David F., author. 1975. Ponencias de los miembros del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., en la XIV Reunión de Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología y la I Reunión de Antropólogos e Historiadores de Centramérica y México, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 22 al 28 de junio de 1975.

Honduras

• OLTROGGE, David F., author. 1975. Ponencias de los miembros del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., en la XIV Reunión de Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología y la I Reunión de Antropólogos e Historiadores de Centramérica y México, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 22 al 28 de junio de 1975.

Mexico

• AGEE, Peggy, author. 1993. Fronting in San Jeronimo Mazatec.  
• ANDERSON, Lynn, author. 1993. You can say that again: Repetition in Alacatlatzala Mixtec.  
• BENTON, Joseph P., author. 1997. Aspect shift in Chichicapan Zapotec narrative discourse.  
• HARRIS, Larry R., author. 1995. Some features of narrative discourse in Santiago Nuyoo Mixtec.  
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1995. A preliminary catalog of focus devices in Mixtecan languages.  
• HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., author. 1975. Discourse structure, interpropositional relations, and translation.
• SCHRAM, Terry L., author. 1990. The logical structure of John’s Gospel.
• WILLIAMS, Judith, author. 1993. The fronting of noun and adverb phrases in Mixtec of Tezoatlan.  
• WILLIAMS, Judith, author. 2008. The fronting of noun and adverb phrases in Mixtec of Tezoatlán.  

Peru

• FAST, Gerhard, author. 1975. Estructura de la narración en achual.  
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1996. "La estructura del texto aguaruna."  
• PARKER, Stephen G., author. 1998. Notes on determiners in Chamicuro.
• SHAVER, Dwight A., author. 2000. "Nexos: elemento cohesivo del texto una técnica de enlace en el discurso del quechua Inkawasi-Kañaris."

Saint Lucia

• FRANK, David B., author. 1990. The structural organization of St. Lucian French Creole narrative texts.

United States

• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1989. "Recursion in the paragraph as a unit of discourse development."

Asia

China

• MOREV, Lev N., author. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  

India

• JOSEPH, D. Selwyn, author. 1990. "Some discourse features of Dhurwa narratives."
• THOMAS, Christopher; THOMAS, Vasanthi, authors. 1990. "Storyline scheme for the Chodri language."
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 2: Clause.  
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 3: Texts.  
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists.  

Indonesia

• BERRY, Christine, author. 1998. "The art of the storyteller in Abun society."
• HEESCHEN, Volker, author. 1994. "How long are clauses and sentences in a Papuan language like Eipo?."
• SILZER, Sheryl, author. 1979. "Some figures and ground functions in Ambai narrative."

Laos

• MOREV, Lev N., author. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  

Malaysia

• MILLER, Carolyn P.; MILLER, John D., authors. 1991. "Thematic continuity and development in Coastal Kadazan narratives."
• MOODY, David C., author. 1991. "Continuity and development in Idaʼan narrative discourse."

Nepal

• HALE, Austin, editor. 1973. Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal 1: General approach.  
• HALE, Austin; WATTERS, David E., editors. 1973. Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal 2: Clause.  
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 2: Clause.  
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 3: Texts.  
• TRAIL, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists.  

Pakistan

• HALE, Austin; TRAIL, Ronald L., authors. 1995. A rhetorical structure analysis of a Kalasha narrative.
• ROSS, David A., author. 1999. "A beginning look at Brahui connectives."

Philippines

• BENN, Keith, author. 1987. Discourse approaches to cohesion: a study of the structure and unity of a Central Bontok expository text.
• BRAINARD, Sherri; PEBLEY, Carol Jean, authors. 1999. "The functions of fronted noun phrases in Kagayanen expository discourse."
• BRICHOUX, Robert; HALE, Austin, authors. 1977. "Some characteristics of hortatory strategy in Subanun."  
• GAULT, JoAnn Marie, author. 2003. "Pronouns in Sama Bangingi' hortatory discourse."
• GIESER, C. Richard; HALE, Austin, authors. 1977. "Approaches to an explanatory discourse in Guinaang Kalinga."  
• HALE, Austin, author. 1977. "Comments on the Thurman chart (band analysis): a technique for seeing how various kinds of information are marked in discourse."  
• LEE, Byung-Hoon, author. 2007. Translation of hortatory discourse into Central Bontok: a case study of Amos 5:1-17.
• WALROD, Michael R., author. 1983. Philosophy of normative discourse and persuasion: a study of Gaʼdang exhortation and argumentation.
• WIENS, Hartmut, author. 1990. "A stratificational perspective on the discourse structure of Limos Kalinga."  

Thailand

• MIGLIAZZA, Brian, author. 2001. So procedural texts.

Viet Nam

• MOREV, Lev N., author. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  
• THOMAS, David D., editor. 1966. Papers on four Vietnamese languages.

Pacific

Australia

• GLASS, Amee, author. 1997. Cohesion in Ngaanyatjarra discourse.

New Caledonia

• SCHOOLING, Stephen J., author. 1985. "More on Matthew’s brackets: a study of the function of time references in Matthew’s Gospel."

Papua New Guinea

• EDMISTON, Patrick, author. 1982. "Kosena paragraph structure."
• HEALEY, Joan, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1984. Some aspects of topic continuity in Mangga Buang discourse.  
• HEMMILÄ, Ritva, author. 1989. "The demonstrative pronouns ‘pa’ and ‘ti’ in Urim discourse."
• HOWARD, David Edward, author. 2002. Continuity and given-new status of discourse referents in Adzera oral narrative.  
• HUCKETT, Joyce, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Iduna paragraph and discourse structure.  
• LAWRENCE, Marshall, author. 1977. Quotations in Oksapmin.  
• LEWIS, Ronald K., author. 1972. "Sanio-Hiowe paragraph structure."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1972. Hierarchy and universality of discourse constituents in New Guinea languages: Discussion.
• LOVING, Richard, editor. 1976. Grammatical studies in Suena and Iduna.
• PIKE, Evelyn G., author. 1997. "The grammatical structure of a New Guinea Pidgin procedural discourse."
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1997. The syntax of discourse structure.