It-extraposition in English: A functional view

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-159

  Kaltenböck, Gunther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Functional grammar; Information structure; it extraposition; Text linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248701755     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.2.02kal     Document Type: Article

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