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The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French.
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ISBN: 9027225451 0915027658 9786613359179 1283359170 9027279616 9789027225450 9789027279613 9781283359177 6613359173 Year: 1985 Volume: VI:3 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author's observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series.

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