CLAUSE RELATIONS句子关系分析.doc

CLAUSE RELATIONS(Theoretical Framework) A clause relation is the cognitive process whereby we interpret the meaning of a sentence or group of sentences in the light of its adjoining sentence or group of sentences.(Winter) 2.A clause relation is also the cognitive process whereby the choices we make from grammar,lexis and intonation in the creation of a sentence or group of sentences are made in the light of its adjoining sentence or group of sentences.  Where the clauses are independent,we can speak of sentence relations. 4.A clause is a significant semantic unit.A sentence may/can consist of one clause or more than one clause. Relation between clausesThe relations between clauses cannot be random or haphazard; the meaning of every clause is function of its adjoining clauses in its sentence. 6.Every clause in a discourse is in at least one semantic relation with at least one other clause or group of clauses in that discourse. Clause relation in a discourse may be between clauses,groups of clauses,or part of clauses;in other words the relation is no respect of syntactic boundaries, though its realization is necessarily rooted in the grammar of the clause. Out of a finite number of clause relations an infinite number of patterns of organization may be built. Every discourse has therefore a potentially unique organization. Semantic CompletenessThere must be two kinds of completeness in our definitions--grammatical completeness and semantic completeness. By semantic completeness we mean that the clause may be grammatically complete but not semantic complete and this requires an adjoining clause or clauses to complete its meaning as clause, in for example, This is a problem is grammatically complete but cannot be understood without the next (independent) clause; it raises the obligatory question: What is this problem? Lexical signals “There are vocabulary items, lexical repetitions that help signal the relations that hold the sentences of a paragraph and th