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Meaningful arrangement : exploring the syntactic description of texts / Edward McDonald.
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View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Edward, 1963-
- Series:
- Functional linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2008.
- Contents:
- Meaning and structure
- Processing the text
- Linear sequence and structural order
- Identifying syntactic units
- Bracketing and labelling
- Constituency and dependency
- Identifying clause functions
- Analysing function structures
- Words and phrases
- Combining clauses
- Information flow
- Full words and empty words
- Delimiting syntax
- Theorising syntactic relations (i): case
- Theorising syntactic relations (ii): transitivity
- Modelling syntactic patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches
- Modelling syntactic patterning (ii): paradigmatic approaches
- 'Doing syntax': aims and methodologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1845531477
- 9781845531478
- 1845531485
- 9781845531485
- OCLC:
- 65341078
- Publisher Number:
- 99937398178
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