Abstract
This paper investigates the use and function of the apposition. On the basis of a general distinction between “indicative” constituents (subjects, objects and complements of prepositions, whose text pragmatic function is to indicate - introduce or reiterate - text referents) and “predicative” constituents (predicatives and attributives, which describe - ascribe properties to - referents designated by indicative constituents), it is argued that the apposition belongs to the latter group. It can therefore never be referential or co-referential. The paper also examines the frequency of all the apposition types encountered in a corpus of written and oral Italian and Danish texts. The distribution found confirms the general predominance of nominalising structures in Romance over Germanic languages, and in written over oral texts.
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