Reduced parenthetical clauses as mitigators : a corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish / Stefan Schneider.

While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Schneider, Stefan, 1958-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Series:	Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 27.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Clauses. Grammar, Comparative and general > Parenthetical constructions. Pragmatics. Semantics.