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Stand-alone dependent clauses functioning as independent speech acts: A crosslinguistic comparison.

The present paper focuses on the investigation of the productivity and functional range of stand-alone dependent clauses as indirect speech acts in English, German and Hungarian. Prior research has shown that stand-alone conditionals in English and German display a wide range of application in different pragmatic functions while Hungarian does not provide any examples for the phenomenon, at least not for indirect directives. In the present paper the perspective is broadened so as to investigate other types of stand-alone dependent clauses in English and German and their Hungarian counterparts

dependent clauses, indirect speech acts, indirect directives, metonymy, illocutionary metonymy, grammatical construction, linguistic motivation

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