Search Results for comparative grammar

... of language known as comparative grammar. In this regard, scholars have failed to give due consideration to the fact that Proust was related to one of the most celebrated linguists of his time, Michel Bréal. As Proust would have learned from his cousin’s public lectures and published works, there are, in fact...

..., more specifically on the grammar of verbs, is a structuralist one, as is Genette's “deductive” method in defining the categories of narration. The relationship between Genette's categories and previous concepts of narrative analysis is discussed briefly; in contrast to these, Genette's concepts...

... . 1994 . “ The Grammar of the Portrait: The Construct of the Artist in David Grossman, The Book of Internal Grammar, and James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .” Comparative Literature Studies 31 , no. 3 : 270 – 91 . Feldhay Brenner Rachel . 1999 . “ ‘Unsealing’ the Letters...

... to try to teach machines how to understand. Much of this research was inspired by Noam Chomsky and his concept of universal grammar. If we could just develop a comprehensive enough set of rules as well as exceptions and edge cases, the thinking went, the machine could use these rules to process language...

.... Beaugrande, Robert de 1982 “The Story of Grammars and the Grammar of Stories,” Journal of Pragmatics 6 : 383 -422. Black, John B., and Gordon H. Bower 1980 “Story Understanding As Problem-Solving,” Poetics 9 : 223 -50. Black, John B., and Robert Wilensky 1979 “An Evaluation of Story...

.... Adler, Hans, and Sabine Gross 2002 “Adjusting the Frame: Comments on Cognitivism and Literature,” Poetics Today 23 : 195 -220. Allen, James F. 1983 “Do Story Grammars and Story Points Differ?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 : 592 -93. Auerbach, Erich 1973 [1946] Mimesis...

... that until now have attracted comparatively little attention in multimodality studies, including not only multimodal novels, comics, and films but also current television programs, video games, and other forms of digital media. On the other hand, and no less importantly, the articles collected here engage...

... periods (such as early life) and later become triggered by particular events that are evocative of earlier experience. These patterns can be termed a personal biosocial grammar (compare the universal moral grammar in Mikhail 2007). Every 1. Several basic emotion systems have been...

... 2002 Notes on Contributors Uri Margolin is professor of comparative literature at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His current research focus is on narratology, especially the use of logical and cognitive models for the analysis of narrative. He has published close to fifty...

... and explanation in contexts of scientific inquiry in particular. © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Aarts, Bas, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova, eds. 2004 Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Abbott, H. Porter 2003 “Unnarratable...

... in the contemporary world. David Herman sketches directions for cognitive narratological research, drawing on work done in text processing, social psychology, discourse analysis, and cognitive grammar. He explores three research domains: “role” or character (originating in structuralist...

... and married life in the contemporary world. David Herman sketches directions for cognitive narratological research, drawing on work done in text processing, social psychology, discourse analysis, and cognitive grammar. He explores three research domains: “role” or character...

... in the contemporary world. David Herman sketches directions for cognitive narratological research, drawing on work done in text processing, social psychology, discourse analysis, and cognitive grammar. He explores three research domains: “role” or character (originating in structuralist...

...Dorrit Cohn © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Early Discussions of Free Indirect Style Translated by Dorrit Cohn Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Harvard Translator’s Preface Readersofmodernviewsonfreeindirectstyle...

... or a short story, specifying desired features (a sonnet, an unreliable narrator), and then evaluates the result, highlighting its deficiencies when compared with texts produced by humans. Of course, these discovered deficiencies may only be temporary setbacks to be overcome by the next, even more scaled-up...

... and knowledge in the history of the book in the incunable period. Sabine Gross is professor of German and affiliate professor of comparative literature and of theater at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she teaches literature, literary theory, and theater. Her publications include Lese-Zeichen...

.... The analysis alerts us to a certain complicity between semiotics, pure logical grammar, and mathematical truth. A great deal hangs on this com- plicity and on the epistemological assumptions that sustain it. In order to address the issue in full, it will be necessary to look at the manner in which...

...- ing is, one does not feel that Jost needed Cavell to help him see what Frost himself has so sensitively displayed. Cascardi’s essay, ‘‘The Grammar of Telling: The Example of Don Qui- xote is interesting but disappointing in the same way as are Jost’s and, later, Stephen Mulhall’s ‘‘Reading...

... scholarly publications may be found at httpmargarethfreeman. wordpress.com/publications/. Chanita Goodblatt is an associate professor of English and comparative literatures in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, and in the Laboratory for Cognitive Poetics at Ben-Gurion University. She...

... to Functional Paradigm 587 denominator of narrativity (“an outline applicable to all types of narra- tive Compare the recent adjustment for generality in Kafalenos (2006), as in various earlier Propp-like action models and cognitivist story grammars. Kafalenos abstracts ten “functions” from Propp’s...