A Handbook of Present-day English: (pt.2) English accidence and syntax
Author: Etsko Kruisinga
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 332
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A Handbook of Present-day English: pt. II: v. 1-3. English accidence and syntax
Author: Etsko Kruisinga
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the Semantics of Syntax
Author: Eirian C. Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1317419448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and condition in English. It seeks to establish correspondences between areas of semantic organisation (‘planes’) and surface grammar, without reverting to an intermediate notion of deep grammar. The chapters explore topics including the differences between ‘literal meaning’ and ‘significance’, speech roles, and constructions of condition and reason in terms of the four panes discussed earlier in the volume.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-08-29
Total Pages: 1322
ISBN-13: 9780521200042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Phrasal Verbs
Author: Stefan Thim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 3110257033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction (‘phrasal verb’) from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed. From a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective the Old English prefix verbs are identified as preverbs and the shift towards postposition of the particles is connected to the development of more general patterns of word order. The interplay of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic factors in the loss of the native prefixes in the history of English is investigated. In this context the question is discussed to what extent the older prefixes were replaced by particles and borrowed prefixes, how the characteristic etymological and semantic properties of the Modern English phrasal verbs can be explained and what role they play in the lexicon. The author argues that their common perception as particularly ‘English’, ‘colloquial’ and ‘informal’ has its origin in the eighteenth-century normative tradition.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Author: George Watson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 3662463679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
Author: Bernd Kortmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1136122281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot dominated by one theory - original approach Good high profile area considered: semantic-pragmatic interface Part of the move to corpus-based studies in linguistics Great source book for scholars of English Grammar
Modals and Periphrastics in English
Author: Paul Westney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3110958902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential periphrastic forms, this study investigates the nature of the relationship between the modals must, should, will and can and various semantically close periphrastics, using a spoken corpus of British English as the primary source of data. The focus is on the pragmatic interpretation of the items being compared, with some attention to their functions in discourse. These items are notoriously idiosyncratic both syntactically and semantically, but the general contrast claimed by some scholars between the maximally unmarked status of modals and the relatively marked status of periphrastics is amply confirmed, and this, together with the basic association of modality with alternative possible worlds, is shown to be reflected in a number of different ways, including the claimed 'objectivity' of periphrastics and the tendency of some to be associated with actuality. Level of formality is also found to be a significant, though not uniform, factor here.
