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| ISBN: | 9780567057945
0567057941
9781841270142
1841270148
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Reading University).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and indexes.
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| Summary: | This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. A new model is offered.
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| Other form: | Print version: Heimerdinger, Jean-Marc. Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives. Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1999 1841270148 9781841270142
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