Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French

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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 author’s observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which shoul...
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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 author’s observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which shoul...
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  • Formats: pdf
  • ISBN: 9789027279613
  • Publication Date: 1 Jan 1985
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM