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Author : Sverker Brorström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Increasing Frequency of the Preposition about During the Modern English Period written by Sverker Brorström and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791428733
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Prepositions and Complement Clauses written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers. Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.
Author : Michael Pace-Sigge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137470313
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units written by Michael Pace-Sigge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora.
Author : Claude Guimier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027280894
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Prepositions written by Claude Guimier and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages. If most of publications listed consider syntax or semantics, they also take into account morphological, stylistic, psycholinguistic or historical aspects.
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027225281
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Scene of Linguistic Action and Its Perspectivization by Speak, Talk, Say and Tell written by and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs.
Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761810391
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Change and Continuity in the English Language written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study of English predicate complementation over the past three centuries. It draws data from an unprecedented combination of authoritative sources, including computer corpora and H. Poutsma's unpublished dictionary, and offers novel systematizations of predicates and discussions of alternation. By giving ample evidence of both change and continuity in the language over the past three hundred years, the book opens up a new research field in the study of the English language.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761814078
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Diachronic Studies of English Complementation Patterns written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1999 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diachronic Studies of English Complementation Patterns offers original analysis of change and continuity of predicates selecting central prepositions and complement clauses over the last three centuries using authentic data drawn from a unique combination of authoritative resources. Juhani Rudanko examines some of the most central prepositions in English; to, in, at, on/upon, and with, in constructions using an -ing clause. He depicts the common constructions used with the prepositions, focusing on matrix adjectives, matrix verbs, and in the case of to, the issue of alternation related to the infinitival pattern. He also provides a systematization of matrix verbs governing the pattern of eighteenth century English in each case. Then Rudanko focuses on the later development of the verbs identified by comparing the eighteenth century usage with present-day English. He draws on many sources for guidance on usage in each period along with the Oxford English Dictionary and H. Poutsma's unpublished dictionary which were sources throughout. For present-day English, he uses the intuitions of native speakers, along with the British National Corpus, and the COBUILD Direct Corpus. His source for nineteenth century examples is the Corpus of Nineteenth Century English. For the eighteenth century, he used the Chadwyck-Healy Corpus and the Century of Prose Corpus.
Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395029
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Studies in the History of the English Language VI written by Michael Adams and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110804077
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Advances in English Historical Linguistics written by Jacek Fisiak and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263841
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Explorations in English Historical Syntax written by Hubert Cuyckens and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Author : Stephan Gramley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000089916
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Survey of Modern English written by Stephan Gramley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard American and British English individually and in comparison with each other. Over and beyond that, this volume treats other Englishes around the world, especially those of the southern hemisphere countries of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as well as numerous varieties spoken in southern, eastern and western Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The main areas of investigation and interest include: pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary; multiple facets of English dialects and sociolects with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity; questions of pragmatics as well as a longer look at English-related pidgin and creole varieties. This authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly, and systematic review of modern English. In one volume, the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations. This is complemented with an updated general bibliography and with exercises at the end of each chapter and their suggested solutions at the end of the volume, all intended to provide students and other interested readers with helpful resources.
Author : Frederik Theodor Visser
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Syntax of the English Language written by Frederik Theodor Visser and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joakim Sigvardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Immanence and Transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon written by Joakim Sigvardson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Imran Ho-Abdullah
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034305822
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Variety and Variability written by Imran Ho-Abdullah and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar prepositions in New Zealand and British English. Based on corpora data from the three varieties, the author provides usage types analysis of the prepositions at, in and on. The analysis exploits cognitive approaches to prepositional polysemy and gives a motivated account of prepositional variations across varieties. The book offers a wealth of corpus based linguistic data and explanation to our understanding of variations in prepositional usage in different varieties of English. The distributional frequencies of various usage types are provided to illustrate the variation.
Author : Lauren Fonteyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019091758X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Categoriality in Language Change written by Lauren Fonteyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event, ranging from that-clauses (That he had guessed her size) over infinitives (For him to guess her size) and verbal gerunds (Him guessing her size) to nominal gerunds (His guessing of her size) and deverbal nouns (His guess of her size). Interestingly, not only do these strategies each resemble "prototypical" nominals to varying extents, but also some of these strategies increasingly resemble clauses and decreasingly resemble prototypical nominals over time, as if they are gradually shifting categories. Thus far, the literature that has dealt with such cases of diachronic categorial shift has mainly described the processes by focusing on form, leaving us with a clear picture of what and how changes have occurred. Yet, the question of why these formal changes have occurred is still shrouded in mystery. In this book, Lauren Fonteyn tackles this mystery by showing that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization can also involve functional-semantic changes in two steps. First, building on functionalist and cognitive models of grammar, she offers a theoretical model of categoriality that allows us to study diachronic nominalization and verbalization not just as morphosyntactic but also as functional-semantic processes. Second, she offers more concrete, "workable" definitions of the abstract functional-semantic properties of the nominal and verbal/clausal class, which are subsequently applied to one of the most intriguing deverbal nominalization systems in the history of English: the English gerund.
