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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 bit of gra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2005.
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| Colección: | Oxford textbooks in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 bit of 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 he would g. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (562 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780191530043 0191530042 |