Author: Chiara De Bastiani
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527559726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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This study takes up the challenge posed by the reanalysis of Verb-Object order as the basic one in the history of English; the question, which has been debated for over thirty years, is tackled here by combining a qualitative and quantitative investigation with current linguistic theories, shedding new light on the phenomenon. It introduces new evidence in favour of a universal base order, by exploring the syntax of both Old English and Early Middle English and the information structural and prosodic properties of objects. It also considers the philological history of the texts examined, highlighting how this aspect should not be neglected in a diachronic linguistic study. As such, this book provides new data for scholars working in the field of English linguistics, as well as students and linguists interested in language change at the interface between syntax, information structure and prosody.
Author: Y. Tobin
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Aims to provide a broad view of the subject difficult to obtain exclusively from academic journals and monographs. Coverage of this series will extend to all main aspects of linguistic study, and will include work on major language families, on English and other important languages.
Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317867955
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating problems are concentrated in the area of the finite verb phrase: in particular, tense, aspect, mood and modality. Meaning and the English Verb describes these fields in detail for teachers and advanced students of English as a foreign or second language. This new third edition uses up-to-date examples to show differences and similarities between American and British english, reflecting a great deal of recent research in this area. It also takes account of the subtle changes which are taking place in the language today. In print for over 30 years, Meaning and the English Verb has established itself as a recognised authority on the meaning and use of verb constructions in English. This updated third edition will ensure that it remains an invaluable text for teachers and students of English worldwide.
Author: Frank Robert Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870240768
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783125243026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: F.R. Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317885988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author's own research. Theoretical discussion is kept to a minimum, but the arguments are always presented within a modern theoretical framework.
Author: Thomas E. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763290
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110199882
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice. The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules. The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context. The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials. Original data is used frequently throughout the book to illustrate the theory discussed.
Author: Michael Grady
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110909057
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Walter Hirtle
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560270
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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While the work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, his theory is not well known in the English-speaking world. Lessons on the English Verb provides a comprehensive treatment of the English verbal system within a Guillaumean theoretical framework - an approach unprecedented in its systemic scope.
