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Publication details [#39037]

Sgall, Peter and Eva Hajiová. 1987. The ordering principle. Journal of Pragmatics 11 (4) : 435–454.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning | ordering | sentence structure | topic vs. focus

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses the existence of a sentence ordering principle that is closely linked to the pragmatically based topic-focus articulation of the sentence (meaning).