The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives  

Oleh:

Loock, Rudy ; O'Connor, Kathleen M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 41 no. 4 (Dec. 2013), page 332-358.
Topik: appositives; apposition; discourse functions; appositive relative clauses
Fulltext: The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives.pdf (445.14KB)

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This article investigates the discourse functions of nonverbal appositives: noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and adjective phrases in apposition to a preceding nominal unit. Given the many similarities between nonverbal appositives and appositive relative clauses, the discourse functions of the latter serve as a starting point for an evaluation of the discourse functions of the former. More precisely, we compare our 600-token corpus of nonverbal appositives with Loock’s taxonomy of discourse functions for appositive relative clauses. The taxonomy is then modified to accommodate the nonverbal appositives that do not fit the taxonomy. Correlations with a series of linguistic parameters are established.

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