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Publication details [#52989]

Ming, Tao and Liang Chen. 2010. A discourse-pragmatic study of the word order variation in Chinese relative clauses. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1) : 168–179.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatics | relative clause | relevance theory | word order change

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study proposes a discourse-pragmatic analysis of the word order variation in Mandarin Chinese relative clauses, deploying a corpus-linguistic approach to examine the conditioning factors that affect the variation of two main discursive constructions.