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Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Beeching, Kate
Detges, Ulrich

Hardcover

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9004274804
ISBN13: 9789004274808
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 14 2014
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a strong way, most of the chapters - especially those based on corpus data - show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.

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