The Syntax of Speech Acts: Deictic Inversion as an Evidential Strategy in English
This paper presents empirical evidence to support the so-called syntactization of discourse, that is, the projection of relevant pragmatic features in the narrow syntax. In particular, it analyses <i>deictic inversion</i> in English, a construction which is used by the speaker to point a...
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MDPI AG
2024-05-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/5/183 |