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Parentheticals
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Generally speaking, parenthetical structures constitute insertions into some host structure without being syntactically integrated into it. This syntactic non-integration and the question of their semantic and pragmatic contribution are among the main challenges for the linguistic description of these structures. Owing to their primarily perform…

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Sonnenhauser, Barbara, “Parentheticals”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief: Marc L. Greenberg, General Editor: Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 01 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032032>
First published online: 2020



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