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Manoliu-Manea, Maria.

Discourse and pragmatic constraints on grammatical choices : a grammar of surprises / Maria Manoliu-Manea ; edited by Glanville Price. - Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1994. - xxiii, 416 p. ; 23 cm. - North-Holland linguistic series ; 57 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-394) and index.

Part One: Topicality and Centrality
I. Discourse salience and staging effects: The grammar of the direct object
II. The grammar of whole/part relations
III. Reflexive passive versus plain passive
IV. Discourse coherence and verbal non-tensed forms: The suppine

Part Two: Expectation
V. Identity and denial: The pragmatics of 'same' and 'self'
VI. Beyond logical operators: Romanian adversative conjunctions

Part Three: Grammar and Narrative Strategies
VII. The narrative functions of cross-sentential anaphoric subjects
VIII. Iconicity in synthax: Past tenses in middle Romanian. In Lieu of Conclusion
IX. A multivariable model of gender: When neuter becomes neutral

General Bibliography
Index of Linguistic Terms

ISBN: 0444820434

LCCN: 94039160

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Discourse analysis.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Pragmatics.

LC Class. No.: P302 / .M34 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 401.41 MAN