Dislocation or afterthought? : a conversation analytic account of incremental sentences in Chinese

For almost 80 years, Chinese linguists have been fascinated by sentences like “Pijiu ba, he dianr!” (“Beer, I'll have some!”), which look superficially like a jumbled-up version of “normal-order sentences.” Numerous accounts have been proposed to explain their structure and meaning, but no cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luke, Kang-Kwong.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97949
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13236