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Publication details [#26559]

De Vries, Lourens. 1993. Clause combining in oral Trans-New Guinea languages. Text 13 (4) : 481–502.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

clause | speech | writing

Language as a subject

Languages, New Guinea

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper which examines clause combining in oral Trans-New Guinea texts shows that hypotaxis and subordination (Halliday, 1987) outrank by far parataxis (Chafe, 1987-'88).