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Applying (Non)Head-Movement Mechanism to Study Topic Sentences in Applied Linguistics Research Articles
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Abhinan Wongkittiporn – African Educational Research Journal, 2025
Writing a topic sentence is difficult, as a variety of linguistic knowledge is required to represent the main idea of the whole paragraph. This study applies the mechanism of A-movement in generative syntax to observe syntactic structures, semantic denotations and pragmatic aspects of topic sentences in applied linguistics research articles. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Journal Articles, Language Research, Sentences