Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225672
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.
Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781556196621
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.
Author : Bernard O'Dwyer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551117638
Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence constituent goes—Form, Function, and Position. The objective of the book is to bring students to a better understanding of sentence constituents and sentence structures, providing them with appropriate terminology to discuss these forms and relationships. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout. The accompanying Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills.
Author : Stephan Gramley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415300355
This comprehensive and systematic review of modern English presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender and ethnic variations.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002
No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".
Author : C.T. Onions
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 113689859X
This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis. Part I contains a treatment of syntactical phenomena based on the analysis of sentences; Part II classifies the uses of forms. Cross-references indicate how the two parts supplement one another.
Author : Jim Feist
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266522
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures. The research reported in this book shows semantic structure to be in part hierarchic, fitting the syntax in which it is expressed, and partly a network, fitting the nature of the mind, from which it springs. It is complex enough to provide for the emotive and imaginative dimensions of language, and for shifts of standard meanings in context, and the “rules” that control them. Showing the full structure of English semantics requires attention to many currently topical issues, and since the underlying theory is fresh, there are fresh implications for them. The most important of those issues is information structure, which is given full treatment, showing its overall structure, and its relation to semantics and the whole grammar of English. As of October 2024, this e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Author : K.S. Yadurajan
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198082958
Focusing on how the English language works in the Indian context, this book discusses all the critical components of modern English grammar: from finite and non-finite verb and gerunds and the infinitive to different kinds of clauses, tense, active and passive voice, punctuation, phrasal verbs, etc.
Author : Diane Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317878140
The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops. Varieties of Modern English provides a critical introduction to the study of regional, social, gendered, context- and medium-related varieties of the language, and explores some of the debates concerning the role and impact of English in different parts of the world today. Beginning by outlining the main types of variation in language, the book focuses on the link between language or dialect and the construction of both group and individual identities. Issues of identity are crucial to chapters on the roots of Modern English, on gender and English, on ethnicity and English and on English as an international language. As well as looking at a range of 'users' of the language, Davies also explores many of its 'uses' and modes, including the English of literary texts, advertising, newspaper reporting and commentary, political speeches, email and text messaging. Written in a discursive, student-friendly style, the book also provides: * A rich mix of illustrative material * End-of-chapter Activities and related Comments at the end of the book * Suggestions for further reading Varieties of Modern English provides a thought-provoking overview of its subject and will be invaluable reading for students of English Language and Linguistics.
Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275823
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.
