Analysis of the Syntactic Characteristics of Written Discourse
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The objective of this article is to provide the tools needed to understand exactly how various syntactic options are used by competent adult writers to produce written texts. We shall consider the sentence as the smallest unit that can comprise a text and attempt to discern how these units are used in communicatively efficient ways. In order to fulfill this goal, this comprehensive research project seeks to address two main questions: on the one hand, what syntactic units can be used to establish sentences, and on the other, what kinds of relationships can be established within each syntactic unit.
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