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Premodifiers in English : their structure and significance /
"The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Zones, and types of order
- Semantic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- Syntactic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- Unmarked order within the classifier zone
- Free order
- Marked order
- Historical explanation of premodifier order
- Supporting explanations of premodifier order
- Discussion
- Conclusion.