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Peer reviewedOdlin, Terence – Second Language Research, 1992
The applicability of transferability principles to language contact in the British Isles, especially Ireland, is shown with a detailed discussion of absolute constructions, structures with interesting relations between syntax and discourse, and with susceptibility to cross-linguistic influence. Evidence for transferability of absolutes in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
