Description
Summary: | This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function, through examining the communicative functions of Left-Dislocation in English. The investigation is corpus-based, and focuses on spontaneous conversation, but other discourse types are also taken into account. The overall perspective is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions about the possible fu.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027285911 9027285918 9786613092748 6613092746 1283092743 9781283092746 |
Language: | English. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
Action Note: | digitized |