Author: Louise Pound
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Comparison of Adjectives in English in the XV and the XVI Century
Author: Louise Pound
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Comparison of Adjectives in English in the XV and the XVI Century
Author: Louise Pound
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
English Adjective Comparison
Author: Victorina González-Díaz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290954
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic as well as diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate only on the ‘standard’ comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms), but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290954
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic as well as diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate only on the ‘standard’ comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms), but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.
On the Crises of 1837, 1847, and 1857, in England, France, and the United States
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Anglistische Forschungen
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
More Support for More-support
Author: Britta Mondorf
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027234841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic ("prouder") and analytic ("more proud" ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands a compensatory strategy referred to as "more" -support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited to environments of increased processing complexity presumably owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possibly because the degree marker "more" can serve as a structural signal foreshadowing cognitive complexity. A bird s eye view of 24 determinants reveals that the processing effort which triggers the analytic comparative emanates from structures that are phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, lexically, semantically or pragmatically complex. By bridging the gap between corpus-based variation research and psycholinguistic and typological approaches, the book breaks new ground in uncovering the functional motivation behind the continued variability of synthetic-analytic contrasts."
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027234841
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic ("prouder") and analytic ("more proud" ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands a compensatory strategy referred to as "more" -support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited to environments of increased processing complexity presumably owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possibly because the degree marker "more" can serve as a structural signal foreshadowing cognitive complexity. A bird s eye view of 24 determinants reveals that the processing effort which triggers the analytic comparative emanates from structures that are phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, lexically, semantically or pragmatically complex. By bridging the gap between corpus-based variation research and psycholinguistic and typological approaches, the book breaks new ground in uncovering the functional motivation behind the continued variability of synthetic-analytic contrasts."
Adverbs and Comparatives
Author: Conrad Sabourin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027209936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax, but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take within a syntactic string has proved to be much more difficult to determine than had previously been thought. Still another reason for the increase of interest in this topic may be found in the recent trend in linguistics which focusses on communicative competence and actual language use in daily discourse. Although this bibliography has no claim to exhaustiveness, it should nonetheless be useful to researchers working on adverbs and comparatives. The titles selected relate in one way or another to the problems the linguist faces with respect to the adverb.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027209936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax, but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take within a syntactic string has proved to be much more difficult to determine than had previously been thought. Still another reason for the increase of interest in this topic may be found in the recent trend in linguistics which focusses on communicative competence and actual language use in daily discourse. Although this bibliography has no claim to exhaustiveness, it should nonetheless be useful to researchers working on adverbs and comparatives. The titles selected relate in one way or another to the problems the linguist faces with respect to the adverb.
Fielding's Tom Thumb
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251604
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251604
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
A History of Women's Contributions to Linguistics
Author: Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036404501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The author of this essay confesses that she has practised an exhumation exercise: an overwhelming work of research in which many names are hardly known (let alone recognised). The challenges of a work for which there is little precedent, and which was absolutely necessary, are numerous and varied: from the absence of documentation (or the difficulty of accessing it) to the over-representation of a large handful of linguists as opposed to the practical invisibility of the majority, to cite only the most obvious. Nevertheless, the result is an enjoyable and pedagogical read which documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women who have worked in language-related disciplines. The book explores Western and Eastern sources in order to do justice to all those women who make this book meaningful.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036404501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The author of this essay confesses that she has practised an exhumation exercise: an overwhelming work of research in which many names are hardly known (let alone recognised). The challenges of a work for which there is little precedent, and which was absolutely necessary, are numerous and varied: from the absence of documentation (or the difficulty of accessing it) to the over-representation of a large handful of linguists as opposed to the practical invisibility of the majority, to cite only the most obvious. Nevertheless, the result is an enjoyable and pedagogical read which documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women who have worked in language-related disciplines. The book explores Western and Eastern sources in order to do justice to all those women who make this book meaningful.