Verbal structure and content in written discourse: Expository and narrative texts

Written Language and Literacy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-126

  Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur ^a   Cahana Amitay, Dalia ^b   Aparici, Melina ^c   Hell, Janet Van ^d   Viguié, Anne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

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EID: 84989382897     PISSN: 13876732     EISSN: 15706001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/wll.5.1.05rag     Document Type: Article

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