Re: Participant Reference and Discourse Boundaries

From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 16:13:08 EST


on 03/19/00 12:20 PM, David R. Mills wrote:

> I will use a breakdown of participant reference presented by Gustavo
> Martin-Asensio*:
>
> #1 Full Explicit Subject (proper noun used)
> #2 Abbreviated explicit subject (pronoun or article used)
> #3 Non-explicit subject (e.g., verb inflection for person)
> #4 Non-subject participant (e.g., direct or indirect object)
>
> I would suggest that what we see in Mk 6:16-17 is two level #0 participant
> references to hHRWiDHS. The first is EGW in verse 16 and the second is AUTOS
> hO hHRWiDHS in verse 17.
>
> ****
>
> I find this interesting, but I don't have Gustavo Martin-Asensio available.
> What is a level #0 participant?
>

David,

No such thing as a level #0 participant.

#1-#4 are levels of participant reference prominence, level #0 is a level
with greater discourse prominence than level #1. This is just a extension of
the model to include levels of prominence which exceed a "Full Explicit
Subject (proper noun used)." This is the way I am using this model which may
not be at all acceptable to the author of the model (probably not). I simply
have appropriated the model for my current purpose which is to talk about
the use of participant reference to mark of discourse boundaries.

--
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062

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