Implicit stage topics
It has often been proposed that sentence-initial spatio-temporal elements specify the frame in which the whole proposition takes place and are topical (i.e. thematic). Whereas considerable attention has been paid to explicit spatio-temporal topics, Erteschik-Shir (1997, 1999) argues that spatio-temp...
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Main Author: | Karen Lahousse |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2008-04-01
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Series: | Discours |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/117 |
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