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Publication details [#1606]

Bolkestein, A. Machtelt. 1985. Cohesiveness and syntactic variation: Quantitative vs qualitative grammar. In Bolkestein, A. Machtelt, Casper De Groot and J. Lachlan Mackenzie, eds. Syntax and pragmatics in functional grammar. Foris. pp. 1–14.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

co-text | cohesion | quantitative method | syntactic variability

Person as a subject

Givón, T.

Annotation

A confrontation of the quantitative approach (à la Givon) and the qualitative approach (à la Dik, Bolkestein, Hannay, a.o.) to the study of syntactic variation in languages and of the degree to which the use of a construction can be related to properties of the stretch of discourse in which it occurs, i.e. to pragmatic factors.