Publications

Publication details [#1364]

Berry, Margaret. 1981. Polarity, ellipticity and propositional development: Their relevance to the well-formedness of an exchange (A discussion of Coulthard and Brazil's classes of move). Nottingham Linguistic Circular 10 (1) : 36–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational move | conversational organization | sentence vs. text

Person as a subject

Brazil, D. | Coulthard, R.M.

Annotation

B. discusses a proposal by Coulthard and Brazil for classes of moves in conversational exchanges, and their conclusion that the sentence must still be regarded as the highest unit of grammar.