A semantic approach to English grammar / R.M.W. Dixon
- Bib ID:
- 3806150
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dixon, Robert M. W
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005
- xvi, 543 p. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780199283071
- 9780199247400
- 0199283079
- 0199247404
- Series:
- Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
- Summary:
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"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 go, and I wont to go but not I want that he would go."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Orientation
- 2. Grammatical sketch
- 3. Noun, adjective and verb types
- 4. Primary-A verb types
- 5. Primary-B verb types
- 6. Secondary verb types
- Some grammatical topics
- 7. She is departing for the jungle tomorrow, although the doctor has been advising against it
- 8. I know that it seems that he'll make me want to describe her starting to say that she knows that it seems that ...
- 9. I kicked at the bomb, which exploded, and wakened you up
- 10. Our manager's annoyance at thoughts of residence rearrangement bears no relation to his assistant's criticism of building restrictions
- 11. The plate, which had been eaten off, was owned by my aunt
- 12. Yesterday, even the rather clever bishops could not very easily have sensibly organised a moderately unusual exorcism here
- 13. What sells slowly, but wears well?
- 14. She gave him a look, they both had a laugh and then took a stroll.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2005
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