Positions of parentheticals and interjections
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چکیده
Sentences in Dutch can be interrupted in various ways. We will use the term intercalation for interruptions by the speaker/writer that occur within the boundaries of a sentence without influencing this sentence (cf. de Groot 1949). The sentence (the host sentence or host) continues after the intercalation as if the intercalation were not there; the syntactic structure and the intonation pattern of the host sentence remain unaltered. This description of intercalations can be summarized in the following formula:
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