RT Journal Article
T1 On the grammatical status of 'Colon Structures'
A1 Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
AB The present paper is an attempt to examine the grammatical status of the kind of estructure that is typically punctuated with a colon. Contrary to the traditional interpretation of this patern, which relies heavily on the nebulous notion of apposition,  it is argued here that colon structures are best seen as discoursal processes. This means not only that apposition should be ruled out as a possible analysis, but also that the relationship of dependency (or indeed any other sentential relationship) is inadequate for dealing with this kind of structure. The basis for the textual interpretation is that the cohesion that characterises the units that make up colon structures cannot be adequately expressed fron whitin the sentence al all
PB Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
SN 0210-6124
YR 1993
FD 1993
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23138
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23138
LA eng
NO Fariña, J. C. A. (1993). On the Grammatical Status of'Colon Structures'. Atlantis, XV, 1-2, 5-20
NO The research that is here reported on has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through its Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (DGICYT), grant number PB90-0370. This grant is hereby gratefully acknowledged
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