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Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: contrastive approaches
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011)This volume presents papers from the International Workshop on Indo-European Syntax held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia in May 2009. The workshop was a cooperative effort between the Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages (PROIEL) project at the University of Oslo and the University of Georgia. The papers in the volume study the interaction between syntax and discourse structure in various old Indo-European languages, in most cases with an explicitly contrastive focus. -
Русский язык в контрастивном аспекте
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2010)This volume of OSLa contains the proceedings of the conference "Russian in Contrast" (Oslo, September 2009). The proceedings comprise three parts, two in English (Grammar; Lexicon) and one in Russian. The third part of the proceedings can be downloaded here: osla-2-3.pdf. -
Russian in Contrast. Lexicon
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2010)This volume of OSLa contains the proceedings of the conference "Russian in Contrast" (Oslo, September 2009). The proceedings comprise three parts, two in English (Grammar; Lexicon) and one in Russian. The second part of the proceedings can be downloaded here: osla-2-2.pdf. -
Russian in Contrast. Grammar
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010)This volume of OSLa contains the proceedings of the conference "Russian in Contrast" (Oslo, September 2009). The proceedings comprise three parts, two in English (Grammar; Lexicon) and one in Russian. The first part of the proceedings can be downloaded here: osla-2-1.pdf. -
Structuring information in discourse: the explicit/implicit dimension
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009)The present thematic issue is a collection of articles which elucidates important theoretical aspects relating to the explication of implicit (not linguistically encoded) information in written and spoken discourse. Theoretically it moves from relevance theory, through compositionally based semantic and pragmatic reasoning to novel pragmatic theories of the mechanisms involved in constraining interpretations. The linguistic phenomena analysed include the impact and licensing of implicit arguments, the representation of non-sentential utterances, the interpretation of discourse markers and the impact of sentence focus on text interpretation. The complete volume can be downloaded here: osla-1.1.pdf.