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Given vs. Known Information

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It might seem at first that syntactic subordination too serves the purposes of theme-rheme organization. I think that this impression is misleading. Subordination has another important function in textual organization.

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Carlson, L. (1983). Given vs. Known Information. In: Dialogue Games. Synthese Language Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3963-0_12

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