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Publication details [#36404]

Vincent, Diane and David Sankoff. 1992. Punctors: A pragmatic variable. Language Variation and Change 4 (2) : 205–216.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

constraints on variability | discourse analysis | marker of conversational organization | pragmatic particle | social constraint

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper sets out to account for some aspects of the conditioning of punctors within sentences and within discourse, in terms of the interaction of syntactic, discursive, etymological and social constraints.