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Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English.
This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English -- preposing, postposing, and argument reversal -- and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variet...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English -- preposing, postposing, and argument reversal -- and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety of ways in which information can be 'given' or 'new' and shows how an understanding of this variety allows us to account for the distribution of these constructions in discourse. Moreover, the authors show that there exist broad and empirically verifiable functional correspondences within classes of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789027281906 9027281904 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |