Degrees of Explicitness; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Subjects; Chapter 3: Direct and indirect objects; Chapter 4: Conclusion; Notes; Data sources; References; Appendix: Oral data examples prior to normalization; Index; Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
Summary
This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available packaging techniques, ranging from zero reference, to various stressed and unstressed single forms, to actual doubled ("reduplicated") constructions. The study systematically addresses the need to avoid referential and grammatical ambiguity, and the crucial influence of emphasis. Another, and perhaps most
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index
