Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English by Betty J. Birner, Gregory L. Ward
Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

Betty J. Birner, Gregory L. Ward

Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

Betty J. Birner, Gregory L. Ward

314 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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Relying heavily on corpus data, the authors identify three interacting dimensions along which individual constructions may vary with respect to the pragmatic constraints to which they are sensitive: old vs. new information, relative vs. absolute f...

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