Mitsuaki Shimojo. Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii+263 pp. ISBN 978 1 009 42182 9

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Shengwen Du | Beijing Foreign Studies University

Chang Xu | Beijing Normal University

Tiaoyuan Mao | Beijing Foreign Studies University

Published online: 1 October 2024

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00060.du

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Mitsuaki Shimojo. Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii+263 pp. ISBN 978 1 009 42182 9

Mitsuaki Shimojo. Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii+263 pp. ISBN 978 1 009 42182 9