ABSTRACT
MWA preserves in some contexts the CA convention that all lengthy stretches of
formal discourse, written or spoken, begin and end in principle with a blessing,
with all the intervening sentences being joined by the coordinating and
subordinating devices described in Chapters 6 and 7. In particular nearly all the
coordinators in Chapter 6 are used as paragraph introducers and connectors with
much the same meaning as they have between sentences. However, the paragraph
structure of MWA is also showing signs of Western influence, notably in the
increasingly frequent appearance of sentence introducers paired with a
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