Brian A. Yeager, Yasuharu Den
Some Irregularities in English Conversation
Abstract:This paper investigates four cases of unexpected word order found in conversational
English, the Pseudo-cleft construction, uninverted sentences with question intonation, logophoric reflexive pronouns, and NPs that are not incorporated into standard
syntactic structures. The discourse function of the various phenomena is considered
as well their intonational characteristics.