Apposition
a backgrounded rhetorical relation in French and Russian
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2026.1.97-104Keywords:
apposition, discourse relations, utterance statusAbstract
Although apposition has attracted the attention of linguists in recent years, defining and delimiting this category remains problematic. In this article, we propose a definition based on the notion of background utterance, neither stated nor presupposed, and argumentative adjunct. We will highlight some differences between French and Russian, where the category is more limited.
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