Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy
Pragmatics & beyond. New seriesPublished 15 May 2007
Laura A. Michaelis, Hartwell S. Francis
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2 All examples are taken from the Switchboard corpus of English telephone conversations (Godfrey et al. 1992), unless otherwise noted.We will shortly describe the properties of
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