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Collins, Peter. 1994. Extraposition in English. Functions of Language 1 (1) : 7–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

clause | communicative function | corpus analysis | extraposition | grammatical function

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This article examines communicative and grammatical properties of extraposed nominal clauses, deriving examples and quantitative information from a corpus of contemporary Australian English.