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Sentence-initial Conjunction

Sentence-Initial Conjunction is a syntactic construction in which a coordinating conjunction appears at the beginning of a sentence, serving to link independent clauses while deviating from traditional prescriptive norms that restrict such usage.

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Publications

602

Citations

25

Authors

14

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Sentence-initial Coordinating Conjunction

Parents

Publications

13

Discourse patterns for turn-final conjunctions

Aino Koivisto · Journal of Pragmatics · 2012 · 125 citations

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Speech and Span: Working Memory Capacity Impacts the Use of Animacy but Not of World Knowledge during Spoken Sentence Comprehension

Hiroko Nakano, Clifford D. Saron, Tamara Y. Swaab · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2009 · 104 citations

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Lexical availability and grammatical encoding scope during spoken sentence production

Linda Wheeldon, Natalie Ohlson, Aimee Ashby et al. · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 2012 · 55 citations

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Relative clauses in German Sign Language: Extraposition and reconstruction

Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2005 · 54 citations

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Dutch 'BUT' as a sequential conjunction: Its use as a resumption marker

Harrie Mazeland, Mike Huiskes · 2004 · 51 citations

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Authors

25

  1. HM
    Harrie Mazeland

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    1 publications · 51 citations

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  2. BM
    Bronwyn M. Bjorkman

    Queen's University, Canada

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  3. KI
    Katsunobu Izutsu

    Fuji Women's University, Japan

    1 publications · 40 citations

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  4. CD
    Clifford D. Saron

    University of California, Davis, United States

    1 publications · 104 citations

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  5. TY
    Tamara Y. Swaab

    University of California, Davis, United States

    1 publications · 104 citations

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Institutions

14

  1. Hokkaido University of Education

    Sapporo, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  2. The Shakespeare Association of Korea

    Seoul, South Korea

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  3. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    125 citations

  4. Saint Mary's College of California

    Moraga, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    104 citations

  5. New York University Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  6. Fuji Women's University

    Sapporo, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  7. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    220 citations

  8. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 168 citations

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  3. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  4. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)

    Repository · 1 publications · 54 citations

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  5. Journal of Historical Pragmatics

    1 publications · 40 citations

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