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Publication details [#38967]

Prince, Ellen. 1985. Fancy syntax and ‘shared knowledge’. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (1) : 65–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

knowledge | pragmatic function | syntax1 | topicalization

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that certain classes of pragmatic functions are to be attributed to certain formally identifiable classes of syntactic constructions in English, especially constructions with a perceptible gap and an associated intonation contour.