5 Syntax
5.1 Clauses and speech units in Israeli Hebrew Speech
Speech contains prosody as an extra-linguistic feature; also, not every utterance can be defined as a sentence or a clause, since discourse contains meaningful units of speech, which are not sentences or clauses. Therefore, in the research corpus I refer to speech units (SUs), as defined in Dekel 2010 (pp. 14-15).
There are two main definitions for a sentence: (a) a sequence of words containing a theme and a predicate to form a meaning; and (b) a sequence of words expressing one idea, which ends with a punctuation mark and begins after the previous sentence (Crystal 1997:94, Webster 2003:1134). According to definition (b) a sentence is a written, independent, syntactic unit with ...
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