Detached NPs in Japanese conversation: Types and functions

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Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 417-444

  Matsumoto, Kazuko ^a  

^a AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discourse; Information flow; Intonation units; Japanese conversation.; Noun phrases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041905703     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1998.18.3.417     Document Type: Article

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