Talk:Discontinuity (linguistics)

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Great Article[edit]

This is a great article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TeddyGrantham (talk • contribs) 16:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

A question: is it always possible, in every language, to rearrange a sentence so as to avoid a discontinuity? I may not have understood the article entirely, as I have only a very basic amateur's understanding of linguistics, and so perhaps this is irrelevant, but I thought this would be worth mention in the article. If not, an example of a sentence that cannot be reordered to avoid discontinuities might be useful. JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 00:01, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This entire article needs an editing sledgehammer[edit]

First off, the lead paragraph uses four clauses in a run-on sentence to mumble God-knows-what about when a discontinuity occurs without unambiguously defining what a discontinuity means. Next, the article's first two sets of trees are essentially useless without examples. Finally, the article is a poster child for WP:BIAS via wording that favors the existence of discontinuity as a fact rather than as a concept. I.e. the article repeatedly asserts what discontinuity is rather than what its proponents suppose or hypothesize. That gets us back to the lead, which should read something like, "In linguistics, a discontinuity is a theoretical occurrence that applies to a hypothetical interpolation of a word or phrase within a discrete syntactic structure, or to a parenthetic accretion of a discrete syntactic structure." --Kent Dominic·(talk) 15:34, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]