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Appositive relative clauses in English : discourse functions and competing structures

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Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
248
Series
Studies in discourse and grammar, v. 22
Category
Library
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Content: 1. Acknowledgements, pxiii; 2. Introduction, p1-3; 3. Part I. Appositive relative clauses (ARCs): Definitions, previous studies, typical and atypical syntactic realizations; 4. Chapter 1. Definitions and previous studies, p7-52; 5. Chapter 2. Atypical appositive relative clauses, p53-73; 6. Part II. The discourse functions of ARCs: A suggested taxonomy for written and spoken English; 7. Chapter 3. The corpus: ARCs in usage, p77-93; 8. Chapter 4. The discourse functions of ARCs: A taxonomy, p95-139; 9. Part III. ARCs and their competing "allostructures"; 10. Chapter 5. Definition of ARCs' allostructures, with particular emphasis on nominal appositives, p143-189; 11. Chapter 6. Appositive relative clauses and their other competing allostructures, p191-215; 12. Conclusion, p217-218; 13. References, p219-226; 14. Appendix, p227-229; 15. Index, p231

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