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Peer reviewedMichaelis, Laura A.; Lambrecht, Knud – Language, 1996
Using a particular sentence type--an exclamative construction referred to as "Nominal Extraposition" (NE)--this article outlines a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The article suggests that the relationship between NE and like exclamatives can be represented in an…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
