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Luke, Kang-kwong – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
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 consensus has been reached as to how their true essence…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Chinese, Sentence Structure, Grammar
Rossi, Giovanni – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
When making requests, speakers need to select from a range of alternative forms available to them. In a corpus of naturally occurring Italian interaction, the two most common formats chosen are imperatives and interrogative constructions that include a turn-initial dative pronoun "mi" "to/for me", which is referred to as the "Mi X"? format in this…
Descriptors: Italian, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)