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Publication details [#9846]
Wald, Benji. 1983. Referents and topic within and across discourse units: Observations from current vernacular English. In Klein-Andreu, Flora, ed. Discourse perspectives on syntax. Academic Press. pp. 91–116.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The aim is to examine the role played by discourse, understood as coherent multisentence units in conversation, in the evolution of the syntax of reference. This general topic is addressed by investigating part of the English determiner system, viz. the indefinite articles, and demonstratives in their unstressed attributive uses.