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eltls-56794	Wang, Haixia	Functional Analysis of the “the X is” Construction: A Grammaticalization Perspective	2025	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5949	276	55	Distribution of Different Functions of Parenthetical “the X is” X Discourse marker Comment clause Indeterminate Total thing 114 78 88 200 fact 172 208 20 400 truth 82 112 6 200 trouble 16 16 18 50 problem 87 135 78 300 point 56 134 10 200 4.2.3 Syntactic Position Next comes the syntactic position, i.e., sentence-initially, sentence-medially or sentence-finally, of all the instances of “the X is” type of expressions as parentheticals in the spoken data. (11) PINSKY: …We don’ know if there’s other thing as well.	cache/eltls-56794.pdf	txt/eltls-56794.txt