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Units in Mandarin Conversation : Prosody, Discourse and Grammar.
This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1996.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificially constructed sentence. The book shows that some basic notions developed from sentence-level data often do not account well for speech data. For example, in many versions of syntactic theory, the basic syntactic structure of any sentence is assumed to comprise both an NP and a VP (with variations. |
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| Notas: | 6.4. Distribution of clausal IUs in terms of argument type. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276100 9027276102 1283424320 9781283424325 9786613424327 6613424323 |
| ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |