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Reduced parenthetical clauses as mitigators : a corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish /

While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Stefan, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and je trouve. The research draws on 22 corpora of spoken French, Italian, and Spanish comprising a total amount of 3,975,500 words. Its results consist in a typology of the relevant expressions in the three languages, in the understanding of their pragmatic function and of the factors influencing their.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
ISBN:9789027292810
9027292817
1282154931
9781282154933
ISSN:1388-0373 ;