The Verb In Contemporary English
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Author | : Bas Aarts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521026543 |
This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In Part One, the authors explore topics such as the terminological problems of classification, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality. In Part Two, computer corpora are used to study various types of verb complements and collocations, to trace the development in English of certain verb forms, and to detail the usage of verbs in different varieties and genres of English.
Author | : Bas Aarts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-05-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521460392 |
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field sheds new light on the verb in English. The central concern of the volume is to illustrate that verbs can only be adequately and properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In part one, theoretical topics are explored: terminological problems of classifying verbs and verb-related elements, the 'determining' properties of verbs, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality. In part two, computer corpora are used to study various types of verb complements and collocations, to trace the development in English of certain verb forms and to detail the usage of verbs in different varieties and genres of English.
Author | : Arthur Garfield Kennedy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Claudia Claridge |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9789042004597 |
In a revision of her doctoral thesis (no date or institution cited), which itself grew out of the project to compile the database Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (1640-1740), Claridge looks at the use of such multi-word verbs as get clear, wish for, and make merry as they appear in the database. She considers both syntax and semantics, which she shows merge to some extent, but takes semantics to be the primary and thus the more important level because people know how they are going to say something before they know what they are going to say. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Geoffrey N. Leech |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521867223 |
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and discusses the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.
Author | : Randolph Quirk |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Varieties of english - Elements of grammar - The verb phrase - Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase - Adjectives and adverbs - Prepositions and prepositional phrases - The simple sentence - Adjunts, disjuncts, conjuncts - Coordination and apposition - Sentence connection - The complex setence - The verb and its complementation - The complex noun phrase - Focus, theme, and emphasis - Word formation - Stress, rhythm, and intonation - Punctuation.
Author | : Roberta Facchinetti |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110895331 |
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
Author | : Geoffrey Leech |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 113948317X |
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subjunctive, passive, genitive and relative clauses. These subjects build an overall picture of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.
Author | : Bas Aarts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107016355 |
This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
Author | : Floriana Popescu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789738139992 |