Evidentiality of Discourse Items and Because-Clauses
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چکیده
ASYMMETRY There exists a cross-linguistic asymmetry in availability of discourse items among adjunct clauses between because-clauses on one hand, and temporal clauses and if -clauses on the other (see examples (1) for English obviously , (2) for German ja and (3) for Japanese wa; see Hooper and Thompson 1973, Tenny 2002, Sawada and Larson 2004 among others for the same type of asymmetry with other constructions in other languages).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Semantics
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008