Communication relations

The communication categories provided were taken from our Discourse Analysis template. The definitions and English examples given in the DA apps glossary have been given. When these definitions were not helpful enough examples and extra definitions have been pulled from Mildred Larson's "Meaning based translation" textbook.

The Kovol examples have been pulled from:

• Steve and Philip's DA write-ups.
• Various notes on elicited Kovol sentences.

Is DA the best source?

As Steve put this together, he came to the opinion that DA is not always the best source for figuring out these relationships. Our DA texts were, at times, very complicated. The relationship examples have at times been between propositional clusters or paragraphs. It's been too hard at times to see the patterns.

Eliciting more isolated sentences can make the patterns easier to see. Then we can confirm seeing them in DA. Steve thinks the team should spend a little time eliciting examples of these relationships rather than only pulling them from DA.

Our current knowledge level

• We have focused more on how these relationships are done and know little about why they are used.

Chronological

• We have a working understanding of Chronological relationships
• Simultaneous needs a little attention.
• Step-goal depends on figuring out what Desiderative clauses are doing.

Logical

• We don't know much about Grounds-conclusion or Grounds-exhortation.
• We suggest Endet works for both Means-result and Specific-generic.
• We understand some Condition-consequence relationships.
• We have a working understanding for the other relationships.

Associative

• We haven't really found much useful.
• We don't have a great understanding of the difference between Equivalence, Generic-specific, Additive and Head-amplification. We have the same hypothesis for all of them.
• We don't know Comparisons well.

Relationships we might ignore

• Proportional, incongruity and associated condition-head don't seem to be relationships are is helpful to analyze for Kovol.
• Head-illustration has no examples. It may not be different from other Comparisons
• Misunderstanding-correction and Head-restriction have no examples.

Suggested work to be done

• Elicit comparisons
• Elicit Grounds-conclusion
• Elicit Grounds-exhortations
• Decide if it is worth exploring associative relationships more
• Investigate emi