A semantic approach to English grammar [[electronic resource] /] / R.M.W. Dixon
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | Rev. and enl. 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (562 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 425 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Grammar |
| English language - Semantics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: | DixonRobert M. W |
| Note generali: | Rev. ed. of: A new approach to English grammar on semantic principles. 1991. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [492]-502) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. A. Introduction -- pt. B. The semantic types -- pt. C. Some grammatical topics. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A semantic approach to English grammar |
| ISBN: | 9786611345792 |
| 1-281-34579-2 | |
| 0-19-153004-2 | |
| 1-4356-0698-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452293603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford textbooks in linguistics.