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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birner, Betty J.
Otros Autores: Ward, Gregory L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 40.
Temas:
English language > Word order.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Anglais (Langue) > Ordre des mots.
Anglais (Langue) > Analyse du discours.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
REFERENCE > Word Lists.
English language > Discourse analysis
English language > Word order
Wortstellung
Topikalisierung
Engels.
Syntaxis.
Pragmatiek.
Woordvolgorde.
Anglais (langue) > Ordre des mots.
Anglais (langue) > Analyse du discours.
Englisch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
ISBN:9789027281906
9027281904
ISSN:0165-7763 ;

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