The clause in English : in honour of Rodney Huddleston / / edited by Peter Collins, David Lee

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetto topico: English language - Clauses
• Altri autori: HuddlestonRodney D CollinsPeter <1950-> LeeDavid (David A.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE CLAUSE IN ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; Curriculum Vitae of Rodney Desmond Huddleston; The semantics of English quantifiers; Language, linear precedence and parentheticals; The English modifier well; The deictic-presentation construction in English; Relative clauses: Structure and typology on the periphery of standard English; Post nominal modifiers in the English noun phrase; Elliptical clauses in spoken and written English; On the nature of ?I believe Jack to arrive tomorrow; Intransitive prepositions: Are they viable? ; Sentences, clauses, statements and propositionsSome interactions between tense and negation in English; The English accusative-and-infinitive construction: A categorial analysis; On the boundaries of syntax: Non-syntagmatic relations; Gerund participles and head-complement inflection conditions; Isolated if-clauses in Australian English; Functional and structural: The practicalities of clause knowledge in language education; Subject Index; STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS)
• Sommario/riassunto: The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of 'minor' or 'fringe' constructions, including 'deictic-presentationals'; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; 'isolated if-clauses', and 'exceptional clauses'. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between par
• Titolo autorizzato: The clause in English
• ISBN: 1-282-16300-0; 9786612163005; 90-272-9877-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826152203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 45.