EXPLETIVE IT AND TRUTH VALUE IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія» - Year 2017, Vol 27, Issue 2
Abstract
In this paper we have analyzed syntactic structures with expletive it in terms of truth-value of the sentences in which they appear within the scope of academic writing. They have been considered as presupposition triggers and propositional attitude reports. The paper also presents a communicative approach to writing academic texts, taking the peculiarities of their syntactic structure as a starting point.
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Kh. B. Kunets
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