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Publication details [#3149]

Faarlund, Jan Terje. 1981. Obligatory fronting in a verb-initial language: An attempt at pragmatic syntax. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 17 : 45–58.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
co-text | discourse | meaning | obligatory rule | syntactic process | syntax1 | word order

Annotation

F. claims that a greater understanding of the syntax of natural language can only be reached when the notion of information structure and other pragmatic concepts are taken into account. In addition to models for text and discourse, this requires a (con)textually and pragmatically based syntax.