文档介绍：A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ENGLISH QUOTATIVES
by
JESSICA SAMS
., Truman State University, 2003
., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007
A thesis submitted to the
Faculty of the Graduate School of the
University of Colorado in partial fulfillment
of the requirement for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Linguistics
2008
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This thesis entitled:
A Syntactic Analysis of Written English Quotatives
written by Jessica Sams
has been approved for the Department of Linguistics
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Dr. Laura A. Michaelis, Committee Chair
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Dr. Barbara A. Fox
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Sams, Jessica (., Linguistics)
A Syntactic Analysis of Written English Quotatives
Thesis directed by Associate Professor Laura A. Michaelis
This dissertation examines the three-tiered relationship among form, function, and
genre in the domain of written English quotatives and proposes a model for representing the
syntactic relationship between quotatives and quotations. Quotatives in written language
serve a variety of functions, from providing supporting evidence for a claim to illustrating
the emotional states of characters. These functions are achieved through the use of formal
features, such as adverb use, modification of the speaker-argument, non-prototypical quoting
verbs, and coordinate structures. This study is based on analysis of 2612 quotative tokens
collected from three written genres–fiction books, newspapers, and tabloids. Each quotative
token was annotated for specific syntactic, lexical, and discourse-based features, such as
position, inversion, quoting