Pleonastic use of verbs of speaking in Greek: an interpretation in terms of naturalness theory

This paper investigates a special use of the verbs of speaking in Greek, in which a personal verbal form of a verb of speaking is accompanied by a participle of ano­ ther verb of speaking. The latter is used pleonastically because the clause would be grammatical if the participle were omitted; cf....

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Main Author: Jerneja Kavčič
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2005-12-01
Series:Linguistica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4223