Author: Snea Thinsan, PH D
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Understanding verbs is crucial to mastering any language, especially English. Verbs are at the heart of every statement, acting as the main drivers that convey action, existence, or occurrence. This comprehensive guide dives into the world of verbs, exploring their multifaceted roles in sentence construction and their variable meanings in diverse contexts. This valuable resource is meticulously crafted to enhance your grasp of English grammar and effective communication. The book's structure is akin to piecing together a puzzle, where each verb and its variations are puzzle pieces that, when put together, form a complete picture of proficient language use. To foster a profound comprehension, the guide includes an extensive collection of sample sentences. These examples illustrate the numerous ways verbs can be manipulated to modify their meaning and demonstrate their function in different grammatical structures, encompassing varying tenses, moods, and voices. Moreover, the book presents a series of carefully designed exercises coupled with answer keys. These exercises are instrumental for self-evaluation, allowing you to gauge your understanding and apply your knowledge in practical scenarios. The exercises are framed in multiple-choice format, presenting a variety of real-life situations and modes in which verbs operate, thereby sharpening your ability to use verbs correctly and confidently. Through dedicated practice and the tailored content of this guide, learners will not only master the use of English verbs but also significantly improve their overall proficiency in the English language.

Author: Martin J. Endley
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1617351709
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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The proposed book is best described as a linguistically oriented textbook taking the grammar of English as its subject matter. It is directed to professional teachers of English (ESL and EFL) and their students, as well as those currently training to become teachers of English. The book is also likely to be of interest to interpreters, translators and other English language professionals. It will explore selected aspects and problem areas of English from a broadly “functional” linguistic perspective. My experience as a teacher and teacher trainer has shown me that this perspective has the potential to inspire teachers and students with a genuine enthusiasm for the grammatical features of English and that it often enables them to “make sense” of the grammar in a way that all too often other approaches signally fail to do. An important focus of the book is on understanding grammar as a series of conventionalized patterns rather than a set of rules (which is how grammar has traditionally been presented). Moreover, unlike many other grammar books, this book emphasizes how the grammatical constructions under consideration are employed in various types of communicative situation, attention being given to the importance of discourse context in interpreting the target forms. In line with contemporary linguists generally, the approach adopted is descriptive rather than prescriptive. While the main focus is on English, I offer occasional comments on how the issue under discussion is expressed in languages other than English. Apart from the inherent interest which I hope such comparisons may have for the reader, I take the view that these can be helpful in casting further light on the grammar of English.

Author: Laura Rupp
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349728039
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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This book investigates –s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions. It embraces the many ways in which –s marking varies across the English speaking world, and considers both how it arose in these places historically and the ways in which it has since developed. The authors propose a story which holistically accounts for these different manifestations of –s, drawing upon evidence from a wide range of subdisciplines in linguistics, including sociolinguistics, generative syntax, historical linguistics, dialectology, and discourse-pragmatics. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in these and related fields.

Author: Daniele Franceschi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443885703
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book offers a fine-grained analysis of the most common ingressive and egressive verbs in present-day English in terms of the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive factors responsible for their various structural representations. It draws upon the fundamental assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, according to which grammar is symbolic and conceptually motivated, and focuses in particular on the ability of these predicates to be integrated into constructions as a result of metonymic and metaphoric processes, which impose a well-defined set of constraints. The book supports its analysis and findings with examples both taken from three of the major corpora of English, namely BNC, COCA and GloWbe, and retrieved through ad hoc Internet searches. Although the literature on English aspectual verbs is vast, there are no studies of the language-external factors responsible for their different configurations. As such, this book fills this gap by offering linguists and students of linguistics a detailed investigation of this topic. It will also be of value to scholars with a more general interest in the linguistic evidence of cognitive activity in meaning construction.

Author: Roberto G. de Almeida
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319382425
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other “happenings” are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophy—mostly on the nature of events and predicate-argument structure—and a topic of empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on argument structure and its role in sentence comprehension. More recently, the representation of verb meaning has been gaining momentum as a topic of research in other cognitive science branches, notably neuroscience and the psychology of concepts. The present volume is an expression of this recent surge in the investigation of verb structure and meaning from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science, with up-to-date contributions by theoretical linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists and neuroscientists. The volume presents new theoretical and empirical studies on how verb structure and verb meaning are represented, how they are processed during language comprehension, how they are acquired, and how they are neurologically implemented. Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing is a reflection of the recent collaboration between the disciplines that constitute cognitive science, bringing new empirical data and theoretical insights on a key element of natural language and conceptualization.

Author: Joanne Scheibman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027226211
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.

Author: Han Luo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811368546
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs. It explores the meaning of the verb + particle syntax, the particle placement of transitive particle verbs, how particle placement is related to idiomaticity, and the relationship between idiomaticity and semantic extension. It also offers valuable linguistic implications for future studies on complex linguistic constructions using a cognitive linguistic approach, as well as insightful practical implications for the learning and teaching of English particle verbs.

Author: Beth Levin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226475336
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes by examining verb behavior with respect to a wide range of syntactic alternations that reflect verb meaning. The first part of the book sets out alternate ways in which verbs can express their arguments. The second presents classes of verbs that share a kernel of meaning and explores in detail the behavior of each class, drawing on the alternations in the first part. Levin's discussion of each class and alternation includes lists of relevant verbs, illustrative examples, comments on noteworthy properties, and bibliographic references. The result is an original, systematic picture of the organization of the verb inventory. Easy to use, English Verb Classes and Alternations sets the stage for further explorations of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax. It will prove indispensable for theoretical and computational linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and teachers of English as a second language.

Author: Teona Codreanu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : ro
Pages : 91

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Author: Jakub Marian
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781718787483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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There are around 400 English verbs that have an irregular simple past tense or past participle and even more that manifest some form of irregularity in the present tense. Most books on irregular verbs simply list all irregular verbs in alphabetical order, with all their forms and a few examples of use. This book takes a different approach, which is more suitable for people who want to read a book from cover to cover. Verbs are grouped together according to common patterns, such as a -d that becomes a -t in the past tense (e.g. bend, send), the pattern "-ink, -ank, -unk" (e.g. drink, sink), and verbs that do not change at all (e.g. cut, put).