Autore	Kotowski Sven
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina	425
Collana	Studia Grammatica
Soggetto topico	English language - Syntax
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-047646-0 3-11-047845-5
Classificazione	ET 680
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The word class 'adjective' -- 2. Individual-level, stage-level, and temporariness -- 3. Adjective order restrictions, adjective classes, and property concepts in DP -- 4. Layered adjective order and genericity -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Subject index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466507903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2010
Descrizione fisica	331 p
Disciplina	415/.5
Altri autori (Persone)	Cabredo HofherrPatricia <1970-> MatushanskyOra
Collana	Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today
Soggetto topico	English language - Adjective English language - Syntax Semantics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-55857-9 9786612558573 90-272-8834-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456306503321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2010
Descrizione fisica	331 p
Disciplina	415/.5
Altri autori (Persone)	Cabredo HofherrPatricia <1970-> MatushanskyOra
Collana	Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today
Soggetto topico	English language - Adjective English language - Syntax Semantics
ISBN	1-282-55857-9 9786612558573 90-272-8834-8
Classificazione	17.50
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Adjectives: an introduction / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives / Nadira Aljović -- The Syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives / Leonard H. Babby -- The name of the adjective / Hagit Borer & Isabelle Roy -- Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: The rehabilitation of a much ostracized category / Waltraud Paul -- Comparisons of similarity and difference / Peter Alrenga -- Characterizing superlative quantifiers / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach -- Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives / Petra Sleeman -- Sentential complementation of adjectives in French / Catherine Léger -- Spanish adjectives within bounds / Rafael Marín.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910810249003321

Autore	Takahashi Hidemitsu
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina	425/.6
Collana	Human cognitive processing
Soggetto topico	English language - Imperative English language - Syntax English language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese Japanese language - Grammar, Comparative - English
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-49755-6 9786613592781 90-272-7476-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aim and scope of the book; 1.2 Theoretical framework; 1.3 Data; 1.4 The structure of the book; 1.5 Key concepts; 1.5.1 Schema of the English imperative; 1.5.2 Prototype of the English imperative; 1.5.3 Force Exertion (outline); 1.5.4 Force Exertion (specific applications); 1.5.5 Second Person Subject; 1.5.6 Compatibility between constructions Chapter 2. Observing English imperatives in action 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 What are the most frequent verbs in English imperatives?; 2.3 Four most frequent verbs and their usage patterns; 2.3.2 tell; 2.3.3 let; 2.3.4 look; 2.4 Four other frequent verbs; 2.4.1 come and go; 2.4.2 give and take; 2.5 Overt negation; 2.6 Common accompaniments of the English imperative; 2.7 Summary; Notes; Chapter 3. The meaning of the English imperative; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Previous research; 3.2.1 Anti-force account; 3.2.2 Illocutionary force account 3.2.3 Cognitive Grammar accounts of indirect directive speech acts 3.3 Inadequacies of previous analyses; 3.4 Schema of the English imperative; 3.5 Prototype of the English imperative; 3.5.1 Force Exertion; 3.5.2 Specific applications; 3.5.3 Second Person Subject; 3.6 Summary; Notes; Chapter 4. Accounting for some of the findings in Chapter 2 and the choice between imperatives and i; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Accounting for some of the findings in Chapter 2; 4.2.1 Preference for first person objects; 4.2.2 The systematic appearance of overt negation with a specific class of verbs and adjectives 4.3 Choosing between plain imperatives and indirect directives 4.3.1 Previous claims; 4.3.2 Indirect directives in The Sky is Falling; 4.3.3 Plain imperatives in The Sky is Falling; 4.4 Summary; Notes; Chapter 5. Mixed imperative constructions: Passive, progressive, and perfective imperatives in English; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Constructions and compatibility between constructions; 5.3 Imperatives with passive verbs; 5.4 Imperatives with perfect verbs; 5.5 Imperatives with progressive verbs; 5.6 Summary; Notes; Chapter 6. Conditional imperatives in English; 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Previous findings and proposals 6.2.1 Non-Relevance Theoretic accounts; 6.2.2 Relevance Theoretic account; 6.3 Problems with Relevance Theoretic and non-RT analyses; 6.4 And conditional imperatives: A Construction Grammar account; 6.4.1 The and conditional imperative as a distinct construction; 6.4.2 Left-subordinating and; 6.4.3 The imperative in the and conditional imperative is not allowed to exert maximally strong forc; 6.5 Or conditional imperatives: A Construction Grammar account; 6.5.1 Asymmetric or 6.5.2 The imperative in the or conditional imperative is not only prototypical but maximally strong
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461273703321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina	425
Altri autori (Persone)	BrintonLaurel J AkimotoMinoji <1941->
Collana	Studies in language companion series
Soggetto topico	English language - Syntax English language - Grammar, Generative English language - Grammar, Historical English language - Verb phrase
ISBN	1-282-16298-5 9786612162985 90-272-9875-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COLLOCATIONAL AND IDIOMATIC ASPECTS OF COMPOSITE PREDICATES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. The Origin of the Composite Predicate in Old English; CHAPTER 3. Composite Predicates in Middle English; CHAPTER 4. Composite Predicates and Phrasal Verbs in The Paston Letters; CHAPTER 5. Verbal Phrases and Phrasal Verbs in Early Modern English; CHAPTER 6. Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TA CHAPTER 7. Collocations and Idioms in Late Modern EnglishCHAPTER 8. A Historical Overview of Complex Predicate Types; References; Subject Index; Name Index; STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS)
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910815344703321