Complimenting speech acts: a cross-linguistic approach based on english, french, croatian, hungarian, german, italian and spanish

Abstract

I would also like to thank my professor Zsuzsanna Vladár and Klara Falkné Bánó for their valuable guidance throughout my studies.In addition, I would like to thank my parents. You were always there for me.Finally, I could not have completed this dissertation without the support of my dear children, Lenny, Sven and Mark Neil, who provided stimulating discussions as well as happy distractions to rest my mind outside of my research.