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Lessons on the noun phrase in English : from representation to reference / / Walter Hirtle



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Autore: Hirtle W. H Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lessons on the noun phrase in English : from representation to reference / / Walter Hirtle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, NY, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-86687-7
9786612866876
0-7735-7643-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814234603321
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