The distribution of pronoun case forms in English /
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional di...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 82. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CASE SYSTEM; 2. FORMAL APPROACHES TO CASE AND THE THREE CASE CONSTRAINTS; 3. CASE AND THE WEAK/STRONG DISTINCTION IN THE ENGLISH PRONOUN SYSTEM; 4. THE EMPIRICAL SURVEY; 5. THE SURVEY RESULTS; 6. RELATIVE POSITIONAL CODING AND THE INVARIANT STRONG FORM CONSTRAINTS; 7. MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF THE CONSTRAINTS; 8. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL PRONOUN FORMS IN OTHER STRONG PRONOUN CONTEXTS.