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Publication details [#56212]

Delahunty, Gerald. 2012. An analysis of The Thing is that S sentences. Pragmatics 22 (1) : 41–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience design | discourse marker | discourse topic | pragmatics | sentence

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

At this point in TS history, interpretations of Thing sentences (TS), notifying an abrupt course of the actual topic, leading to a change in its path, are shown to result from of its linguistic characteristics' contextual interaction with common pragmatic principles.