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ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE PARAGRAPH

ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE PARAGRAPH E. V. PADUÖEVA Just as not every combination of words constitutes a well-formed sentence, not every combination of well-formed sentences constitutes a wellformed paragraph.1 In this respect, one can say that the paragraph has a definite structure. Limitations on the combinability of the sentences of a paragraph may be associated with the distinction between a coherent text and a meaningless accumulation of phrases, with the difference between good and bad style, or they may be of an entirely different nature. The following retort of the Bürgermeister (Burgomistr) in the play Drakon [The Dragon] by E. Svarc may serve as an example of a not well-formed paragraph (the Bürgermeister is pretending to be crazy, so the ill-formedness here is deliberate): Burgomistr: A fresh batch of cheese is received at Mjuller's store. The best adornment for a maid is modesty and a transparent dress. At sunset wild ducks flew over the little cradle. They're waiting for you at the meeting of the municipal government, Mr. Lancelot. A description of the limitations of combinability of the units in a text, as a rule, demands an analysis of the internal organization of these units. Very often, laws of combinability of units result http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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1613-396X
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10.1515/ling.1974.12.131.49
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E. V. PADUÖEVA Just as not every combination of words constitutes a well-formed sentence, not every combination of well-formed sentences constitutes a wellformed paragraph.1 In this respect, one can say that the paragraph has a definite structure. Limitations on the combinability of the sentences of a paragraph may be associated with the distinction between a coherent text and a meaningless accumulation of phrases, with the difference between good and bad style, or they may be of an entirely different nature. The following retort of the Bürgermeister (Burgomistr) in the play Drakon [The Dragon] by E. Svarc may serve as an example of a not well-formed paragraph (the Bürgermeister is pretending to be crazy, so the ill-formedness here is deliberate): Burgomistr: A fresh batch of cheese is received at Mjuller's store. The best adornment for a maid is modesty and a transparent dress. At sunset wild ducks flew over the little cradle. They're waiting for you at the meeting of the municipal government, Mr. Lancelot. A description of the limitations of combinability of the units in a text, as a rule, demands an analysis of the internal organization of these units. Very often, laws of combinability of units result

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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