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This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investigating the interrelation of grammar and meaning, Dixon uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different wor...

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Hovedforfatter: Dixon, R.M.W.
Andre forfattere: R.M.W. Dixon
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English
Udgivet: Oxford [England],New York Clarendon Press,Oxford University Press 1991
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Summary:This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investigating the interrelation of grammar and meaning, Dixon uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words. He offers a review of some of the main points of English syntax, as well as a discussion of English verbs in terms of semantic types. Finally, he examines five specific grammatical topics: complement clauses in detail; complement clauses, transitivity and causatives; passive construction; promotion of a non-subject to subject slot; and the relation between verb constructions
Fysisk beskrivelse:xvi, 398 p.
23 cm
ISBN:0198240570
9780198240570