Coordinating constituents in hierarchical discourse structures
Abstract
The information needed in discourse to connect each constituent to the preceding one in a text is added from the discourse context in the text. A unit with initial y “and” is a coordinating constituent but it has subordinating properties, as shown in data from journalistic interviews, analyzed in terms of focus and change of discourse topic
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