Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360
Ausklammerungskontruktionen (Extrapositions)
Definition and empirical investigations
Kristina Skuplik und Walther Kindt
Abstract
SFB 360-Project C4 "Participants' co-ordination of syntax in discourse" researchs
co-operative sentence generation in task-oriented dialogues. An often used resource
for co-ordinating syntactic structure is extraposition, i.e. a kind of syntactic
construction exploiting the so-called Nachfeld: Nachtrag or Ausklammerung.
Before grammatically analysing co-operative realised sentences using the Nachfeld
we first investigated turn-internal cases of Ausklammerung each generated by one
speaker only in the task-oriented dialogues of the SFB 360-corpus "Wir bauen jetzt
also ein Flugzeug ..." (1997).
Cases of Ausklammerung as Du hast doch eben einen Würfel angeschraubt mit der roten
Schraube (you have indeed just now a cube screwed on with a red screw) were realised
approx. 100 times in the 9 experimental task-oriented dialogues.
Our work pursues two aims:
- We want to make a critical contribution to the clarification of the term
"Ausklammerung" within the framework of a descriptive grammar (Chapter 2). To
this end we first discuss existing definitions in order to examine their basic
concepts: clausal fields (Satzfelder) and clausal frame (Satzklammer). Then we
present our definition of the term "Ausklammerung". Finally we distinguish/delimit
"Ausklammerung" from our term "Nachtrag".
- We present the results of our empirical investigations of
Ausklammerung-constructions (Chapter 3). These results are based on the first
nine SFB-corpus' dialogues. A detailed collection of the investigated
Ausklammerung-constructions can be found in the appendix.
As mentioned above we concentrate in this report on the investigation of cases of
Ausklammerung realised by one person. Co-operative generated cases will be
discussed in a later report.
Postscript-File (~ 1259 k)
Anke Weinberger, 1998-06-16, 1998-12-17