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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810932803321

Autore

Rudolph Elisabeth <1926->

Titolo

Contrast : adversative and concessive relations and their expressions in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese on sentence and text level / / by Elisabeth Rudolph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Walter de Gruyter, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

3-11-081585-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Research in Text Theory, , 0179-4167 ; ; Volume 23 = Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie

Classificazione

ES 460

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Connectives

Grammar, Comparative and general - Concessive clauses

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introductory Remarks -- 1. Contrast, its linguistic manifestation and investigations -- Part One - Theory -- 2. Considerations on the theoretical basis -- Part Two - Survey of Research -- 3. The connection of contrast in grammars -- 4. Investigations of adversative relations -- 5. Investigations of concessive relations -- Part three - Functional types -- General remarks on the functional types of the connection of contrast -- 6. Adversative contrast expressed by the main adversative connectives -- 7. Other adversative connectives -- 8. Concessive contrast -- Part Four - Additional Observations -- 9. Special syntactic and/or semantic questions -- Final Remarks -- 10. Contrast and some of its aspects -- 11. Bibliography -- 12. Index -- Backmatter