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The accentuation of intransitive sentences in English1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

David Faber
David Faber
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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This article will be concerned with the accentuation of two types of sentence in English: straightforward intransitive sentences, like (1), and intransitive sentences embedded in the frame It's just NP V-ing, like (2), (1) The DOOR slammed. (2) It's just the DOOR slamming.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , September 1987 , pp. 341 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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