Between standard and extended uses
Roles played by the comma in the segmentation of Italian texts
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The articulation of the Utterance into Information Units
- 2.1.The general structure of the paragraph
- 2.2.The Information Units
- 2.2.1.The Frame
- 2.2.2.The Appendix
- 2.2.3.The Information Units and the semantico-pragmatic architecture of the text
- 3.The linguistic aspect of Information Units (and other Textual Units)
- 3.1.Decoding and inference
- 3.2.Co-orientation and anti-orientation
- 4.The comma and the Textual Units
- 4.1.The comma which opens and/or closes
- 4.1.1.The comma and the informational boundaries
- 4.1.2.A more detailed description
- 4.2.The serial comma
- 4.2.1. The comma within Information Units and between Information Units
- 4.2.2.The comma between Utterances
- 5.Current tendencies: “Extended” uses of the serial comma
- 5.1Linguistic and textual manifestations of the all-purpose comma
- 5.2The value of the all-purpose comma
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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