Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures : : A Corpus-based Study of Talk Units in Spoken English / / Joybrato Mukherjee.

This study investigates prosody-syntax interactions from a functional perspective and based on authentic corpus data. Drawing on Halliday's well-known interpretation of the tone unit as an information unit, Halford's idea of a prosodically and syntactically defined talk unit and Esser'...

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Superior document:Language and Computers ; 35
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Language and Computers ; 35.
Physical Description:1 online resource (173 pages)
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