A Semantic Approach to English Grammar
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 bitof 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 hewould go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-928307-1
- EAN: 9780199283071
- Produktnummer: 22402774
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 543 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.7 cm x D3.6 cm 1'139 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 1139
Über den Autor
R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. His books include The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland (1972), Where have all the adjectives gone? and Other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (1982), Ergativity (1994), The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997), Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002), and The Jarawara Languageof Southern Amazonia (2004). He is the co-editor, with Alexandra Aikhenvald, of the Oxford series Explorations in Linguistic Typology.
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