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On the communicative function of subject pronouns in Arabic1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Mushira Eid
Mushira Eid
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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This paper presents results of an investigation into the communicative function that the presence/absence of pronouns has within the sentence and beyond it into discourse.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , September 1983 , pp. 287 - 303
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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