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A synthesis of previous research and theory in systemic functional linguistics with historical and neurological evidence for the importance of final-position in a clause for placing New (as in Newsworthy) information

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Why is it important?

The historical and neurological evidence provides a partial explanation for the observed linguistic phenomena

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This page is a summary of: What’s the point? The role of punctuation in realising information structure in written English, Functional Linguistics, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s40554-016-0029-x.
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