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This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indon...

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1. Verfasser: Englebretson, Robert
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2003.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 13.
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Zusammenfassung:This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker bahwa, serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix -nya. These four construction types offer no e.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 205 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027296726
9027296723
9027226237
9789027226235
1588113671
9781588113672

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