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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birner, Betty J.
Otros Autores: Ward, Gregory
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Preposing; 3 Postposing; 4 Argument Reversal; 5 Noncanonical Word Order and Discourse Structure; 6 Extensions and Implications; Appendix; References; Index