The ‘Ands’ and ‘Buts’ in Kahlil Gibran’s English Works: A Corpus Stylistics Perspective

The sentence-initial coordinating conjunctions (<i>and</i>, <i>but</i>), referred to in the literature as <i>SIA</i> and <i>SIB</i>, have been well established as discourse markers beyond their syntactic function as connectors of related propositions....

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Main Author: Victor Khachan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-10-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/246