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Autore |
Dixon Robert M. W |
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Titolo |
A semantic approach to English grammar [[electronic resource] /] / R.M.W. Dixon |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611345792 |
1-281-34579-2 |
0-19-153004-2 |
1-4356-0698-1 |
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Edizione |
[Rev. and enl. 2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (562 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford textbooks in linguistics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Grammar |
English language - Semantics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Rev. ed. of: A new approach to English grammar on semantic principles. 1991. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [492]-502) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. A. Introduction -- pt. B. The semantic types -- pt. C. Some grammatical topics. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 g |
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