Participant Reference and Discourse Boundaries

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Sun Mar 19 16:13:08 EST 2000


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.

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





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