What is it about?
English words may often be used in new ways without a formal indication (or marker). The study tries to identify other aspects in the respective utterances, which may help to make sense of the novel usage. These aspects are mainly found in the syntactic environment of the words at issue.
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Why is it important?
The study helps to shed light on the comprehension of unconventional language use by carefully considering what enables people to understand such uses
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This page is a summary of: Friending someone into submission: Verbal cues for understanding, WORD Structure, July 2018, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/word.2018.0125.
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