Re: ARG online

> From: Boudewijn Rempt
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:
>
> <...>
> >
> > I realize that there is a lot to absorb here, but feel free to dip in
> > wherever you like.  Comments, criticisms and corrections are more than
> > welcome.  sign my Guestbook if nothing else.
> >
>
> This is becoming quite grand... I'm glad you're having the time to
> put it all up. If I had a quibble, it's that I would like to have
> a reference to the theoretical underpinnings of terms like 'speech
> act participants', which, while clear enough, can carry a lot of
> linguistic special meaning.  Not just explanations, but references
> to other uses of the terms.
Hmmm.  That could be a rather tall order.  There's a lot of linguistics in
this reference grammar and to find/provide references for all the linguistic
terms might take some doing.  But I suppose this is a valid criticism.  I
tried to cover the most fundamental concepts in the Preliminary Concepts
section.  I suppose I could expand on this to include the definition of more
of the terms I use.  I don't know that I could provide references, however.
I have no formal training in linguistic, but I have read rather extensively.
However, I no longer remember the sources of much of what I have absorbed
from that reading.

"Speech act participants", for example.  Although I certainly could define
what I mean by the term, I have no recollection of exactly where I acquired
the term and no handy bibliography of references.  As you have probably
already surmised, I mean by the term those pronominal referents that are
included in the act of speech, the speaker (1st person) and the listener
(2nd person).  These are of particular importance in amman iar because of
their unique position on the animacy scale that is realized in pronominal
case distribution.  I do discuss this somewhat in the Preliminary Concepts
section.

If there are other specific terms that you feel could use more theoretical
explanations, I would be happy to oblige with explanations of how they are
used in the ARG, but I may have to pass on the "references to other uses"
bit.

Thanks
David

David. E. Bell
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