Background encoding in conversational Catalan

Abstract

Work presented at the First International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar (Lisbon, 2-4 June 2010). It aims to account for the role of Background encoding by means of insertion of lexical material in extra-clausal positions. The study focuses on Discourse Acts with DECLARATIVE illocution. We observe a corpus of five hours of Catalan spoken conversation (Corpus Oral de Conversa Col·loquial, http://www.ub.edu/cccub).