Ronald Geluykens. From discourse process to grammatical construction: On left-dislocation in English
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992. xi + 181 pp.
andCecilia E. Ford. Grammar in interaction: Adverbial clauses in American English conversations
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvii + 165 pp.

Reviewed by

Betty J. Birner | University of Pennsylvania

Published online: 1 January 1996

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