Download or read book Classifying Adjectives written by Beatrice Warren and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Adjectives of Comparison written by Tine Breban and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics in English Linguistics Bernd Kortmann, University of Freiburg Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. English Adjectives Of Comparison Tine Breban, K.U. Leuven The book is concerned with a largely unrecognized grammaticalization process: deictification, or the development from quality-attributing to deictically used adjectives in the English noun phrase. On the basis of the synchronic and diachronic corpus-study of six English adjectives of comparison, deictification is shown to involve unstudied variants of subjectification and decategorialization.
Download or read book The Lexicogrammar of Adjectives written by Gordon H. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adjectives are the third most important class of words (after verbs and nouns), yet this is the first book-length study in English of this central grammatical category. In it English adjectives are described within a framework which unifies semantics and syntax; this has important implications for the modelling of lexis in general. It has long been a principle of systemic functional linguistics - the theory in which the description is set - that lexis should be treated, in Halliday's words, as 'most delicate grammar'. Until now, this challenging concept has never been explored and tested for more than a few small areas of lexis. The research reported here is the first large-scale test of this hypothesis. After a thorough survey of the relevant literature, Gordon Tucker provides a linguistic description of the meanings and forms of the adjectives themselves, the structures that occur around them, and the functions that such units perform as elements of other units (such as the clause and the nominal group). The Lexicogrammar of Adjectives constitutes a major descriptive addition to our knowledge of the value of'lexis as most delicate grammar'. It is a major contribution to the theoretical modelling of language in general and of words in particular. Its conclusions are important both for systemic functional linguistics and for linguistic theory in general.
Download or read book Towards Classifying Verbs and Adjectives Governing the Genitive in Beowulf written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Individuals in Time written by María J. Arche and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded, this book claims, as it examines current theoretical issues concerning the syntax/semantics interface such as the relation between semantic properties of predicates and their syntactic structure. By using the contrast found in Spanish copular clauses (ser vs. estar), Individuals in Time shows that the conception of IL predicates as permanent and stative cannot be maintained. The existence of nonstative IL predicates is demonstrated through analyzing the correlation between the syntactic presence of certain projections (specifically, prepositional complements) and process-like aspect properties. This detailed examination of IL predicates in the domains of inner aspect, outer aspect, and tense will be welcomed by scholars and students with an interest in event structure, tense, and aspect.
Download or read book Introducing English Grammar written by David J. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing English Grammar provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory, and will lay the foundation for further grammatical studies. David Young presents English grammar in a coherent and lively way. He dispels the popular notion among students that grammar is simply a set of dreary rules and argues for the importance of grammar in describing the structure and function of language itself. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter and the book includes integrated diagrams and a glossary of technical terms at the back of the book.
Download or read book Encyclopedic Graded Grammar Volume 1 written by I. P. Attarde and published by Attarde's English Grammar. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Comprehensive Reference Handbook for International Class of English. This unprecedented book is gold mine for those who want to lord over English Language.
Download or read book ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR written by Fernando Herrero Salas and published by Bubok. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta pequeña Gramática inglesa, titulada ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR ha sido concebida para su uso en las clases de enseñanza del Inglés, específicamente pensando en alumnos de 14 a 18 años, de forma que sin demasiadas explicaciones teóricas dispongan de unos cuadros sinópticos tanto de la morfología de los componentes básicos de la gramática inglesa como también de los elementos sintácticos que permitan una rápida comprensión y utilización de ellos a la hora de expresar un pequeño discurso coherente de forma inteligible, sea ello en forma escrita o hablada. Es necesaria, por tanto, su presentación y utilización en clase de forma que puedan entender o consultar luego rápidamente, por su cuenta, las estructuras y funciones que se presentan en esta pequeña obra, y que van redactados en un Inglés simple. Todas las estructuras van acompañadas de un buen número de ejemplos, sin dejar ninguna de las variantes teóricas tratadas sin ejemplificación clara. De especial utilidad son los cuadros dedicados a las Funciones y a la Sintaxis ya que la trabazón de un discurso lingüístico viene determinada por la correcta comprensión de los conjuntos y conjunciones que rigen la adecuada matización de la información comunicativa.
Download or read book The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English written by Christine Günther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on the (oft-neglected) parallels between the two. She also examines the use of noun ellipsis with adjectives in order to shed light on this under-researched phenomenon, drawing on data from the British National Corpus.
Download or read book Type Noun Constructions in Slavic Germanic and Romance Languages written by Wiltrud Mihatsch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.
Download or read book The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond written by Lilia Schürcks and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar written by Sylvia Chalker and published by OXFORD University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate A-Z access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.
Download or read book Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements written by James O. Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether aesthetic judgements are simply statements about subjective preferences or whether they have some non-subjective basis is one of the most important questions of aesthetics, and, indeed, of philosophy. In recent years, philosophers of language have discussed aesthetic judgements, but have assumed that aesthetic judgements are similar to judgements that employ predicates of personal taste such as 'tasty' and 'delicious.' A speaker's judgement that an item of food is tasty is a report about the speaker's subjective response to that item of food. If aesthetic judgements are like judgements that employ predicates of personal taste, to judge that the St. Matthew Passion is glorious is also a report about what some listener likes. If two people disagree about whether the St. Matthew Passion is glorious, neither has made a mistake. Philosophers of art have tended to disagree with this view. They have distinguished aesthetic predicates such as 'serene,' 'balanced,' and 'glorious' from predicates such as 'tasty.' On this view, the judgement that some artwork is serene or even that it is beautiful is a report about the work, not a report about how a person responds to the work. Aesthetic judgements are not just statements about personal preferences. This volume brings together some of the leading contemporary philosophers of art and philosophers of language to debate the status of aesthetic judgements. Are they simply expressions of personal preference? Is there more basis for saying that a painting is beautiful or serene than there is for saying that a cake is tasty? Is disagreement about aesthetic judgements faultless or can someone be mistaken about the aesthetic value of an artwork?
Download or read book Yearbook of Morphology 1997 written by G.E. Booij and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in morphology has revived in recent years and the Yearbook of Morphology has provided great support for this revival, with its articles on topics that are central to the current theoretical debates. The Yearbook of Morphology 1997 focuses on the relationship between morphology and other modules of the grammar, especially phonology, syntax and semantics. Among the basic questions discussed are: how does morphology differ from other modules of the grammar, syntax in particular? What are the possible forms of interaction between the modules? How does semantics constrain formal variation in morphology? The evidence adduced is derived from a variety of languages. Audience: Theoretical, descriptive and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists, and psycholinguists.
Download or read book Organizing Grammar written by Hans Broekhuis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch linguist Riemsdiyk is honored by scholars, presumably fellow linguists though they do not say so, with 71 papers. Among their topics are moving verbal complexes in Spanish, the notion of topic and the problem of quantification in Hungarian, enfoldment as economy, Quechua P-soup, a new perspective on event participants in psychological states and events, and circumstantial evidence for dative shift.
Download or read book Olympiad Champs English Class 8 with Past Olympiad Questions 4th Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Grammar in Use with Answers written by Martin Hewings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition, with answers and CD-ROM, is ideal for self-study. The book contains 100 units of grammar reference and practice materials, with illustrations in full colour and a user-friendly layout. It is ideal for learners preparing for the Cambridge Advanced, Proficiency or IELTS examinations, and is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus, which ensures the language is authentic and up-to-date.
