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Direct linkCollins, Peter – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
On the basis of 572 examples taken from seven million-word corpora of written English the present study--which complements the spoken data-based studies of Oberlander & Delin (1996) and Weinert & Miller (1996)--explores the relationship between information structure and discourse role with reversed what-clefts. The study confirms the typically…
Descriptors: English, Written Language, Sentences, Sentence Structure
