Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives
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(2) a. Lucille Gorman, an 84-year-old Chicago housewife, has become amazingly immune to stock-market jolts. [Treebank] b. uh, she starts a new job tomorrow, which should take her out of the house about four days a week. [Switchboard] c. In traffic so heavy that there is no way for the jerk to pass, I might pull over, as if to look for a street number or name, (still ignoring the jerk) just to get the jerk off my tail. [20 newsgroups] 2 Appositives, expressives, and (non-)speaker orientation
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