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Autore: |
Hirtle W. H
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Titolo: |
Lessons on the noun phrase in English [[electronic resource] ] : from representation to reference / / Walter Hirtle
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Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, NY, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina: | 425/.5 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - Noun phrase |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | What we are going to talk about and how -- Substantive, adjective and adverb: the theory of incidence -- Parts of speech and the word -- Case and the substantive -- Number: toward the system -- Number: testing for -ø morpheme -- Number: testing for -s morpheme -- Gender in the substantive -- The substantive -- The system of the articles -- A vs. the in discourse -- Bare vs. articled -s substantives -- Bare vs. articled -ø substantives -- Any as a quantifier -- Some and the system --The demonstratives -- Determiners as completive pronouns -- -'s phrase -- Suppletive pronouns as noun phrase -- Personal pronouns and the expression of gender -- The noun phrase and person -- Syntactic function -- Concluding remarks. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Distinguishing the components that make up the meaning of a noun enables us to understand what permits us to say "Ground temperature plus one degrees," or to invent "small is beautiful." A careful look at the meaning and role of -'s and of words like a/the, any/some, this/that, often found in noun phrases, reveals how they refer to the speaker's message. Examining pronouns pin-points the fundamental role of the representation of a grammatical person in all noun phrases. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lessons on the noun phrase in English ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-86687-7 |
9786612866876 | |
0-7735-7643-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791549103321 |
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