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Appositive relative clauses in English : discourse functions and competing structures /

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view, independe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loock, Rudy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Appositive Relative Clauses in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Appositive relative clauses (ARCs); 1. Definitions and previous studies; 2. Atypical appositive relative clauses; Part II. The discourse functions of ARCs; 3. The corpus; 4. The discourse functions of ARCs; Part III. ARCs and their competing "allostructures"; 5. The information-packaging function of syntactic structures and the definition of allostructures; 6. Appositive relative clauses; Conclusion; References; Appendix; Index.