Author: Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Author: Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
A Synopsis of English Syntax
Author: Eugene A. Nida
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110818523
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110818523
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English Language
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110855453
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
No detailed description available for "A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English Language".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110855453
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
No detailed description available for "A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English Language".
The Westminster Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year ...
Author: University of St. Andrews
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Calendar
Author: University of St. Andrews
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Author: Johanna Gerwin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110373580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110373580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
French Elements in Middle English
Author: Frederick Henry Sykes
Publisher: Oxford, Eng. : Hart
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford, Eng. : Hart
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662463679
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration), absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses (subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this research finds that different function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions, and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662463679
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration), absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses (subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this research finds that different function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions, and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.
English Usage
Author: John Lesslie Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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