Role and reference grammar
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Historical background
- 3.Central concepts
- 3.1Clause structure
- 3.2Semantic structure
- 3.3Focus structure
- 3.4Grammatical relations and linking
- 4.Some implications of RRG
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Notes
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References
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