Manifestation of informational focus

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-299

  Xu, Liejiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese; Focus position; Informational focus; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346671105     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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