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A new approach to English grammar, on semantic principles / R.M.W. Dixon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Grammar.
- English language.
- English language--Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 398 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investigating the interrelation of grammar and meaning, Dixon uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words. He offers a review of some of the main points of English syntax, as well as a discussion of English verbs in terms of semantic types. Finally, he examines five specific grammatical topics: complement clauses in detail; complement clauses, transitivity and causatives; passive construction; promotion of a non-subject to subject slot; and the relation between verb constructions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-375) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198242727 :
- OCLC:
- 21525259
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