Point of view and grammar : structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation / Joanne Scheibman.

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that...

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Main Author: Scheibman, Joanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2002.
Series:Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 11.
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