Publications
Publication details [#10522]
Bolkestein, A. Machtelt. 1987. Discourse functions of predications: The background/foreground distinction and tense and voice in Latin main and subordinate clauses. In Nuyts, Jan and Georges De Schutter, eds. Getting one's words into line: On word order and functional grammar. Foris. pp. 163–178. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
On how/whether linguistic phenomena such as parataxis vs hypotaxis, tense/aspect marking, and the choice of active or passive voice are correlated with some notion of background/foreground.