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Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change (2014)
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Beeching, K., & Detges, U. (2014). Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change. Leiden/Boston: Brill

A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symnmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements of the left periphery have mainly su... Read More about Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.