Unexpected left dislocation: An English Corpus Study

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1029-1035

  Manetta, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Centering Theory; Discourse function; Form function correlation; Left dislocation; South Philadelphia English

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847367222     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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