Discourse-related expletives: Challenges and opportunities

Recent research has highlighted the existence of expletive(-like) elements in various languages that are related to discourse, serving as fillers for designated topic/focus positions and/or contributing specific discourse–pragmatic effects. Such elements pose a number of challenges and opportunities...

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Published in:	Open Linguistics Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 117 - 42
Main Authors:	Booth, Hannah, Groothuis, Kim A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 23.10.2024
Subjects:	expletives focus givenness speaker-related meaning syntax–discourse interface topic
ISSN:	2300-9969, 2300-9969
Online Access:	Get full text
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