You Can Say That Again: Repetition in Alacatlatzala Mixtec

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Anderson, Lynn
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1993
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Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.
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SIL Mexico Workpapers 10
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pages 38-53
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A discussion of repetition in Alacatlatzala Mixtec narrative discourse. This construction appears frequently in both oral and written narratives, although it is more common in oral, and takes the form of various kinds of paraphrase. It is used to control information flow, for semantic effect and as a rhetorical device.
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Mexico
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Entry Number: 
10893