Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Subject "bare nouns, shell nouns, discourse markers; diachronic English; grammaticalization"
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Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...