The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing
Ward, Gregory L
First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English. After a review of the past literature on preposing, the book presents a pragmatic theory in which two discourse functions of preposing are proposed. It then provides a functional taxonomy of the various preposing types which the theory is designed to account for. One type of preposing, Topicalization, and t...
