Complementation : its meanings and forms / / Evelyn N. Ransom

• Autore: Ransom Evelyn N
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1986
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Complement; Modality (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226).
• Nota di contenuto: COMPLEMENTATION: ITS MEANINGS AND FORMS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. An Introduction to Complement Meanings and Forms; CHAPTER II. The Information Modalities; CHAPTER III. The Evaluation Modalities; CHAPTER IV. The Combined Modalities; CHAPTER V. The Higher Sentence and Its Complement Modalities; CHAPTER VI. The Representation of Modality and Its Implications; REFERENCES
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules
• Titolo autorizzato: Complementation
• ISBN: 1-283-31394-4; 9786613313942; 90-272-7918-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811906103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Typological studies in language ; ; v. 10.