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Publication details [#31917]

Bakker, Egbert J. 1991. Foregrounding and indirect discourse: Temporal subclauses in a Herodotean short story. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (3) : 225–247.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | foregrounding | indirect expression | narration

Language as a subject

Greek, Ancient

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article provides a discourse-based explanation for the distribution of indicative and infinitival predicates in adverbial subclauses in indirect Ancient Greek narrative discourse.