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Publication details [#23089]
Longacre, Robert E. 1989. Two hypotheses regarding text generation and analysis. Discourse Processes 12 (4) : 413–460. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Annotation
L. argues that it is possible for any discourse type within any language, to arrange the verb-forms/clause structures of that language in a graded salience scheme, which can be used for analyzing local spans of text in terms of dominant vs. subsidiary information.