A semantic approach to English grammar [[electronic resource] /] / R.M.W. Dixon

• Autore: Dixon Robert M. W. <1939->
• 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
• Altri autori: DixonRobert M. W. <1939-.>
• 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: 1-383-04287-X; 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.: 9910808618903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford textbooks in linguistics.