Postposing and Information Structure in English and Farsi/Persian

The term postposing denotes any construction in which a phrasal constituent appears to the right of its canonical position, leaving its initial position either empty or occupied by an expletive. Ward and Birner (2004) argue that postposed constructions preserve the old-before-new information structu...

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Main Author: Shafiei Soheila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-03-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0006