Typological Studies In Language Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility |
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| Author:
| Payne, Doris L. |
| Series title: | Typological Studies in Language Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-8590-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1992 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $69.00 |
Book Description:
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Asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get hearers to build preferred mental representations.
Asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get hearers to build preferred mental representations.