The "Fame Effect" or How the syntactic choices of writers can be explained by their assumptions about their addressees' state of knowledge: the case of relevance-oriented, non-restrictive noun modifiers
In this paper we would like to explore, within Vallduví’s (1992, 1993) information packaging theory, how writers’ assumptions about their addressees’ state of knowledge can account for the choice writers make between competing syntactic structures, which we call “allostructures”, to convey the same...
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Main Author: | Rudy Loock |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2010-12-01
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Series: | Discours |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8027 |
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