AnaConn

The project aims at a comparative analysis of Czech and German discourse-structuring means,

i.e. such expressions that play a significant role in establishing and maintaining discourse

coherence and comprehensibility. The focus is primarily the exploration of anaphoric

connectives, i.e. of such discourse-structuring expressions that combine two fundamental

principles of coherence: connectivity (typical for conjunctions) and anaphoricity (typical for

pronouns and other demonstratives). The class of anaphoric connectives constitutes a complex

network that has not been so far accounted for discourse-oriented research. The research is

mainly based on large corpus analysis. Language resources developed at the applicant's

institute will be used (the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0) as well as resources and

inventories from allied institutions (esp. the Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.0, the parallel

corpus Intercorp, the DiMLex connective lexicon).

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics