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Bolkestein, A. Machtelt. 1983. The role of discourse in syntax: Evidence from the Latin nominativus cum infinitivo. Tilburg Papers in Language and Literature 4 : 111–140.
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English
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B. adduces evidence from a Latin construction that discourse factors (such as the distribution in a sentence of the pragmatic functions topic and focus as defined in the theory of functional grammar) may play a decisive role in determining the possibility of occurrence of certain syntactic constructions.