Locative Inversion In Discourse: a strategy of non-commitment

In this paper, Locative Inversion (hence LI) is analysed as the linear realization of a predication devoid of speaker’s commitment. First, we show that the syntactic constraints and modal restrictions already debated in the linguistic literature, form a coherent set of properties and are evidence of...

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Main Authors: Christine Copy, Lucie Gournay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2009-11-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/discours/7355