This work argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indon
Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical Structure and Sequential Organization (Studies in Discourse and Grammar)
β Scribed by Andrea Golato
- Year
- 2004
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- English
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- 262
- Category
- Library
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