Discourse segmentation in romance languages /

This chapter presents an empirical study of the left periphery of Basic Discourse Units, viz. the linguistic segments that speakers and hearers use to interpret the discourse they are engaged in. A Basic Discourse Unit is bound by the mapping of a syntactic (dependency) structure and a major intonat...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Pons Bordería, Salvador (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 250.
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