Thursday, 5 August 2021

How The Cardiff Grammar Handles Paratactic Expansion

 Fawcett (2010: 271-2):

Finally, IFG's three types of 'paratactic expansion' (with clauses linked by a semi-colon, and and so) are simply three types of co-ordination.

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To be clear, in treating all types of paratactic expansion as co-ordination, Fawcett simply equates co-ordination with parataxis — independent of expansion type. This creates a theoretical inconsistency with his equation of co-ordination with hypotaxis, in the case of elaboration.

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