Publications

Publication details [#42531]

Rosado, Elisa and Liliana Tolchinsky. 2005. The effect of literacy, text type, and modality on the use of grammatical means for agency alternation in Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (2) : 209–237.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | discourse | literacy | modality | text type

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines how literacy, text type, and modality affect the use of grammatical constructions that Spanish speaker-writers can use for agency alternation.