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Publication details [#26701]

Delahunty, Gerald. 1995. The inferential construction. Pragmatics 5 (3) : 341–364.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | hearer | inference | interpretation | speaker

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This essay explores textual and pragmatic characteristics of the infrequently occuring inferential sentence structure, which indicates an interpretation of the local context.