The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French.
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The auth...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1985.
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Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
6:3. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |