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Publication details [#10696]

Enkvist, Nils Erik and Martina Björklund. 1989. Toward a taxonomy of structure shifts. In Heydrich, Wolfgang, Fritz Neubauer and Emel Sözer, eds. Connexity and coherence: Analysis of text and discourse. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 324–341.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

self-repair

Annotation

The term 'structure shift' is used to cover all types of correction or improvement in which a speaker leaves a structure uncompleted and either abandons it or shifts to another structure.