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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press, UK,
2005
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| Series: | Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words. and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would g. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (562 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780191530043 0191530042 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
