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Legislative Sentence Structure

Legislative Sentence Structure is a syntactic framework that organizes legal provisions within statutes through precise, hierarchical, and normatively governed sentence construction to ensure clarity, coherence, and enforceability in legislative drafting.

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2017–2026

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Legislative Syntax

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Publications

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Textual‐mapping in British legislative writing

Vijay K. Bhatia · World Englishes · 1987 · 81 citations

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Cognitive structuring in legislative provisions

John Gibbons · 2014 · 77 citations

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Functional comprehensibility of legislative texts: Experiments with a Swedish act of parliament

Britt‐Louise Gunnarsson · Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse · 1984 · 50 citations

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CLARITY AND WORD ORDER IN LEGISLATION

Dennis Kurzon · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · 1985 · 47 citations

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For the Automated Mark-Up of Italian Legislative Texts in XML

Andrea Bolioli, Luca Dini, Pietro Mercatali et al. · 2002 · 36 citations

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Authors

29

  1. DC
    Deborah Cao

    Griffith University, Australia

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  2. TB
    Tom Bruce

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  3. ED
    Emile de Maat

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. MC
    Michael Curtotti

    Australian National University, Australia

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. SF
    Sara Frug

    Cornell University, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

13

  1. University of Milan

    Milan, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

  2. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    22 citations

  3. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    81 citations

  4. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  5. Aliah University

    Kolkata, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  6. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    44 citations

  8. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  2. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

    1 publications · 47 citations

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  4. Political Analysis

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  5. Legislative Studies Quarterly

    1 publications · 31 citations

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