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Publication details [#49373]
Mutesayire, Martha. 2004. Apposition markers and explicitation: A corpus-based study. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 35 (1) : 54–69. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores the correlation between the use of apposition markers and the discursive realisation of lexical explicitation. It also suggests that translated English is more likely to favour explicitation as a textual strategy than non-translated English.