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Varieties of Questions in English Conversation.
This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally. The role morphosyntax plays in the production and interpretation of these forms as doing questioning is then considered. Speakers are shown to use specific patterns of morphosyntactic marking to enable recipients to interpret noninterrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntacti. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027285850 9027285853 9786613092694 661309269X 1283092697 9781283092692 |
| ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |