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Publication details [#45702]

Loock, Rudy. 2007. Appositive relative clauses and their functions in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (2) : 336–362.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apposition | function | pragmatics | relative clause | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Following Prince's (1981, 1992) definitions of given/new information and Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory (1986), this paper proposes a taxonomy of appositive relative clauses, based on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic criteria.