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Article published In: Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1] 2018
► pp. 61–76

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Transcategoriality and right periphery

 | University of Rouen
Published online: 30 August 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00013.han
Abstract
Among the various syntactic functions that transcategorial but can take, it is the final particle that is the focus of our attention. As it is a characteristic feature of Northern English colloquial conversations, the semantic-pragmatic analysis is pursued in the spoken section of the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. Moreover, particular attention is paid to the relationship between final but and information structure in order to account for the strategy of organizing information. In addition, it is shown that its status as a post-rheme element, which takes into account the position of this particle, does not pay tribute to its main function of textual cohesion. Finally, its potential status as an Antitopic is discussed.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Transcategorial but and semantic invariant
    • 2.1Final but and experiential iconicity
    • 2.2Final but and information structure
  • 3.Final but and interactional coherence
  • 4.To what extent is post-rhematic but an antitopic ?
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
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