Publications

Publication details [#9713]

Verhagen, Arie. 1980. Pragmatic markedness and syntax. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (5) : 425–447.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | markedness | syntactic theory | word order

Language as a subject

Dutch

Journal WWW

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Annotation

The distribution of adverbial phrases in Dutch is considered with respect to several interpretative factors that are related to word order. An explanation of the phenomena involved is offered in terms of pragmatic markedness conventions.