Discourse functions at the left and right periphery : crosslinguistic investigations of language use and language change /
This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Series: | Studies in pragmatics ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi : French disjoint pronouns in the left vs. right periphery / Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
- Motivations for meaning shift at the left and right periphery : well, bon and hao / Kate Beeching and Yu-Fang Wang
- On the function of the epistemic adverbs surely and no doubt at the left and right peripheries of the clause / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
- Setting up a mental space : a function of discourse markers at the left periphery (LP) and some observations about LP and RP in Japanese / Noriko O. Onodera
- Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic markers and the left and right periphery / Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli
- 'So very fast then' discourse markers at left and right periphery in spoken French / Liesbeth Degand
- On the development of sentence final particles (and utterance tags) in Chinese / Foong Ha Yap, Ying Yang and Tak-Sum Wong
- The interplay of discourse and prosody at the left and right periphery in Korean : an analysis of kuntey 'but' / Sung-Ock S. Sohn and Stephanie Hyeri Kim.
