“What are clauses for?
Understanding grammar in terms of social action”

Sandra A. Thompson

LSA

January 5, 2005

<sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu>

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Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English: Du Bois, John W. et al. 2000-2005. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Parts 1-4. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. <http://www.ldc.upenn.edu>

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