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Exclusives, equatives and prosodic phrases in Samoan

Glossa, 2017
This paper investigates the functions of prosodic phrasing in the Austronesian VSO language Samoan. Two types of sentences are investigated, exclusives (involving the particle na’o ‘only’) and equatives.
Sasha Calhoun
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La perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase et l’ordre des mots en allemand [PDF]

Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2012
In this paper, elaborating on Daneš’ idea of the “three-levels approach” to syntax, we advance the hypothesis that the global information structure of an utterance is the result of a synergistic action of semantic, syntactic and Theme-Rheme structures ...
Maria Paola Tenchini
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Word Order in the Communicative Structure of the Sentence in Russian and Persian Languages

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The article introduces a comparative analysis of the word order in the communicative structure of the sentence in Russian and Persian. The research also covered means and methods of expressing communicative structure, as well as the rules and patterns of
Afsaneh Davoudi, Alireza Valipour
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The Directive-Commissive Continuum

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001
In recent years, linguistics has increasingly focused its interest on the realm of texts, trying to find in them links of a similar nature to those working in sentences.
Lorena Pérez Hernández
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Theme-Rheme Analysis in Probing Google’s Coercion Trespassing User’s Privacy; A Forensic Linguistics Research

IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics), 2022
This research constitutes a mixture of multidisciplinary between linguistics with forensic. It represents the clause analysis through the use of theme-rheme in probing the user's privacy violations in Google's user privacy policy agreement: a forensic ...
Sabtra Lesmana, Sawirman, Fajri Usman
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Theme-Rheme and Thematic Progression in Obama’s Speech and Its Translation [PDF]

, 2015
The study entitled Theme-Rheme and Thematic Progression in Obama’s Speech and Its Translation focuses on how a translator puts differences in worldview between the source and the target language text.
Oktaviani, Mufti Rizki
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METAFUNCTION PATTERNS OF THE TOBA BATAK LANGUAGE

Polyglot: Jurnal Ilmiah, 2018
This study aims at finding out the metafunction patterns of clauses of the Toba Batak Language. The data was gained from the speech of tulang (the mother’s brother) in delivering ulos saput at the Bataknese sari matua (an old person who died but he/she ...
Hepnyi Samosir
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Syntactic and Semantic Properties of on the Contrary in British University Student Essay Writing: A Corpus-Based Systemic Functional Analysis

Applied Sciences, 2022
In contrast to previous descriptions of on the contrary (OTC) as a corrective or replacive marker requiring explicit negation, this study revealed that more than 50% of the occasions the expression was used in British tertiary level student essays ...
Yan Zhang
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Case in Caspian Languages: Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talysh, Tati

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
In accordance with the latest classification of the Caspian languages (Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talysh and the Tati dialect group) as Central Iranian, a new non-case description of the grammar of Gilaki and Mazandarani is proposed, while confirming the ...
Vladimir B. Ivanov, Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva   +1 more
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An Analysis of Textual Meaning on Students’ Writing of Recount Texts

ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2019
The topic of this study is the textual meaning on students‟ recount texts of the 4th semester students of English Department, Semarang State University in the Academic Year 2016/2017.
Anggie Febriyana, Ahmad Sofwan, Alief Noor Farida   +2 more
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