The clause in English in honour of Rodney Huddleston
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam
John Benjamins Pub. Co.
©1999
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in language companion series
v. 45 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index THE CLAUSE IN ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; Curriculum Vitae of Rodney Desmond Huddleston; The semantics of English quantifiers; Language, linear precedence and parentheticals; The English modifier well; The deictic-presentation construction in English; Relative clauses: Structure and typology on the periphery of standard English; Post nominal modifiers in the English noun phrase; Elliptical clauses in spoken and written English; On the nature of?I believe Jack to arrive tomorrow; Intransitive prepositions: Are they viable? The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of 'minor' or 'fringe' constructions, including 'deictic-presentationals'; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; 'isolated if-clauses', and 'exceptional clauses'. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between parenthetical ele |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 327 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1556199317 902723048X 9027298777 9781556199318 9789027230485 9789027298775 |