The Categories of Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Categories of Grammar write by Alan Huffman. This book was released on 1997-02-13. The Categories of Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally taken as pretheoretical categories of observation about language, are in fact part of a theory of language which does not withstand empirical testing. It shows that the correct categories are neither those of structural case nor those of lexical case, but rather, semantic ones. Traditionally, anomalies in the selection of dative and accusative case in French, such as case government, use of the dative for possession and disadvantaging, its use in the faire-causative construction, and other puzzling distributional irregularities have been used to support the idea of an autonomous, non-functional central core of syntactic phenomena in language. The present analysis proposes semantic constants for lui and le which render all their occurrences explicable in a straightforward way. The same functional perspective informs issues of cliticity and pronominalization as well. The solution offered here emerges from an innovative instrumental view of linguistic meaning, an acknowledgment that communicative output is determined only partially and indirectly by purely linguistic input, with extralinguistic knowledge and human inference bridging the gap. This approach entails identification of the pragmatic factors influencing case selection and a reevaluation of thematic-role theory, and reveals the crucial impact of discourse on the structure as well as the functioning of grammar. One remarkable feature of the study is its extensive and varied data base. The hypothesis is buttressed by hundreds of fully contextualized examples and large-scale counts drawn from modern French texts.
Categorial Features
Categorial Features - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Categorial Features write by Phoevos Panagiotidis. This book was released on 2015. Categorial Features available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.
English Grammatical Categories
English Grammatical Categories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Grammatical Categories write by Ian Michael. This book was released on 2010-06-10. English Grammatical Categories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.
Modern Syntax
Modern Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Syntax write by Andrew Carnie. This book was released on 2011-01-13. Modern Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary write by Kate Woodford. This book was released on 2003. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
