Descriptive Syntax And The English Verb
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Author | : David Kilby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 100063941X |
Intended for advanced students and researchers in linguistics, Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb, first published in 1984, focuses on the syntax of the English verb and notions of tense/aspect, transivity, passive, phrasal verb constructions, nominalisations and complement sentence types are explored. These constructions are shown t
Author | : Jong-Bok Kim |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
"Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts"--Publisher's description.
Author | : Andrew Rossiter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-06-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782958385507 |
A Descriptive Grammar of English is a concise pedagogical reference grammar, highlighting the fundamentals of contemporary English grammar, clearly illustrated with unambiguous and pertinent examples of modern usage.
Author | : Thomas Herbst |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110203677 |
The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation. Notably, the book is written from a foreign student's perspective of the English language, i.e. aspects relevant to foreign language teaching receive particular attention. A great deal of emphasis is put on the insights to be gained from the analysis of corpora, especially with respect to the idiomatic character of language (idiom principle, valency approach). In addition, the text offers basic facts about the history of the language and elaborates on the differences between British and American English. The author demonstrates that a linguistic fact can usually be described in more than one way. To this end, each section contains a chapter written for beginners providing a broad outline and introducing the basic terminology. The remaining chapters in each section highlight linguistic facts in more detail and give an idea of how particular theories account for them. The book can be used both from the first semester onwards and as perfect study aid for final B.A.-examinations.
Author | : Anne David |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614512310 |
Pashto/Pushto/Pukhto is a group of varieties used by as many as 30 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet a grammar describing these varieties collectively has not been published. The CASL Pashto grammar originates from extensive use of both primary and secondary materials. It attends to features of both spoken and written forms of Pashto and exemplifies the latter generously with naturally-occurring sentences. Detailed descriptions are provided of the phonology and orthography and of the inflectional and derivational morphology applied to all major word classes, with special attention to the complex morphology of verb formation and descriptions of the multiple pronominal systems. Notes on some of the prominent syntactic constructions are provided as a descriptive basis for learners of Pashto and for those interested in syntactic properties characteristic of South Asian languages. For the first time, the highly distinctive Middle dialects, including Waziri, receive attention next to the other major dialect groups. A formal grammar focusing on the morphology is an available companion work.
Author | : Declerck, R. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elena Maslova |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2009-05-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110197170 |
Kolyma Yukaghir is a seriously endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia. It is one of the two surviving languages of the Yukaghir family, which is considered by different scholars either as an isolate left over from before the expansion of other languages and language families into Siberia, or as a distant relative of the Uralic family. In many ways, Yukaghir fits the grammatical type widespread among the languages of Siberia, namely that of predominantly verb-final dependent-marking language with relatively rich agglumative morphology and deranking strategies of clause linking. Furthermore, it has a number of typologically remarkably features, which will be of interest to general linguists irrespective of their theoretical orientation. These include Yukaghir focus-marking system, differential object marking based on global effects of person hierarchy, the obligatory use of bound possesive markers to indicate non-coreference of the possessor with the subject, elaborated switch-reference system, initimate interaction between aspect and valence-changing derivation, etc. The book incorporates all major components of descriptive grammar, from phonology to syntax, with a special chapter on coreference and discourse coherence, annotated and translated sample texts, a Yukaghir-English vocabulary, and a subject index. The description is based on extensive field materials and richly exemplified by non-elicited data. The organization of the book facilitates its use as a reference grammar, with numerous cross-references between sections and concise summaries of interrelated phenomena discussed in various parts of the grammar. The book is of interest to scholars of Uralic and Siberian languages, linguistic typology, and general linguistics.
Author | : Douglas Biber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2015-06-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316298701 |
The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.
Author | : Anne Curzan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107020751 |
Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.
Author | : Andrea DeCapua |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0387763317 |
The purpose of Grammar for Teachers is to encourage readers to develop a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. It approaches grammar from a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach; however, throughout the book differences between formal and informal language, and spoken and written English are discussed. The book avoids jargon or excessive use of technical terminology. It makes the study of grammar interesting and relevant by presenting grammar in context and by using authentic material from a wide variety of sources.