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Detachments for cohesion : toward an information grammar of oral languages / by M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernandez, M. M. Jocelyne, author.
- Series:
- Empirical approaches to language typology ; 56.
- Empirical approaches to language typology, 0933-761X ; 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cohesion (Linguistics).
- Discourse analysis.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Oral communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This monograph is intended as a reference book on Detachment Constructions (DECs) in the Information Structuring of oral and spoken languages. Focusing on DECs in a textual perspective, the book is an innovative contribution to the knowledge of oral and spoken languages, some of them widespread (Indo-European), others less taught (Finno-Ugric).
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Preface
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Orality
- Chapter 2. Information Structuring
- Chapter 3. Detachments in perspective
- Chapter 4. Oral syntax and information grammar
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Language index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9783110394511
- 3110394510
- 9783110349535
- 3110349531
- OCLC:
- 979585509
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