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Publication details [#5960]

Langacker, Ronald W. 1974. Movement rules in functional perspective. Language 50 : 630–664.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional explanation | movement transformation | saliency

Annotation

An attempt to account for a number of movement rules in English (backing, raising, lowering, and fronting) in terms of their functional role with respect to the surface prominence of the objective content of the utterances involved.