A Semantic Approach to English Grammar.

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of gra...

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Main Author: Dixon, R. M. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2005
Series:Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
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