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Publication details [#1223]
Becker, Alton L. 1979. The figure a sentence makes: An interpretation of a classical Malay sentence. In Givón, Talmy, ed. Syntax and semantics 12: Discourse and Syntax. Academic Press. pp. 243–259.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
B. analyzes a classical Malay sentence as a strategy of interpretation which helps the people it is used by to understand and to feel coherent in their worlds.