In:Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 89] 2019
► pp. 97–125
Chapter 6Macrosyntactic annotation
Published online: 6 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.89.07pie
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.89.07pie
Abstract
This chapter describes the macrosyntactic annotation of the Rhapsodie corpus, from the linguistic heritage to Rhapsodie’s own theoretical approach to macrosyntax. Macrosyntactic phenomena, such as dislocation, discourse markers, inserts, or parenthesis, are quite frequent in spoken French. The major unit of this level is the illocutionary unit, the main component of which is the nucleus, bearing the illocutionary force. Three kinds of peripheral components are considered: adnuclei, openers, and associated nuclei, including discourse markers. The different types of relationships between illocutionary units – contiguity, hierarchy, parallelism, and bifurcation – are discussed, as well as the interplay between macro- and microsyntactic units. We show in particular that microsyntactic relations can go beyond macrosyntactic boundaries and even speech turns.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Macrosyntactic traditions
- 1.2Rhapsodie’s approach to macrosyntax
- 2Rhapsodie’s macrosyntactic annotation
- 2.1Identifying the illocutionary units
- 2.2Nucleus and ad-nuclei
- 2.1.1Nucleus
- 2.2.2Ad-nuclei
- 2.3IU openers
- 2.4Associated nuclei
- 3.Linear relations between IUs
- 3.1Contiguous IUs
- 3.2Embedded Illocutionary Units
- 3.3Parentheses and bifurcations
- 3.4Discourse units beyond IUs: The case of parallelism
- 4.The interaction between macrosyntactic and microsyntactic units
- 5.The annotation procedure
- 6.Conclusion
Notes
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