A grammar of English. Volume 1 : Categories / John M. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, John M. (John Mathieson), 1941- author.

Series:

A Grammar of English ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (702 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This grammar of English embraces major lexical, phonological, syntactic structures and interfaces. It is based on the substantive assumption: that the categories and structures at all levels represent mental substance, conceptual and/or perceptual. The adequacy of this assumption in expressing linguistic generalizations is tested. The lexicon is seen as central to the grammar; it contains signs with conceptual, or content, poles, minimally words, and perceptual, and expression, poles, segments. Both words and segments are differentiated by substance-based features. They determine the erection of syntactic and phonological structures at the interfaces from lexicon. The valencies of words, the identification of their semantically determined complements and modifiers, control the erection of syntactic structures in the form of dependency relations. However, the features of different segment types determines their placement in the syllable, or as prosodies. Despite this discrepancy, dependency and linearization are two of the analogical properties displayed by lexical, syntactic and phonological structure. Analogies among parts of the grammar are another consequence of substantiveness, as is the presence of figurativeness and iconicity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part I: Parts of Speech

Chapter 1 Representation

Chapter 2 Categorization

Chapter 3 Categorial Asymmetries and Functional Categories

Chapter 4 The Content of Functors

Chapter 5 Dependency and Linearity – Syntax

Chapter 6 Dependency and Linearization – Phonology

Chapter 7 Complex Categories, and Complex Parts of Speech

Chapter 8 Determiners and Attributives

Chapter 9 Names and Pronouns

Chapter 10 Substance and Modularity – Syntax

Chapter 11 Substance and Modularity – Phonology

Chapter 12 Contrast and the Segment

Chapter 13 Restrictions on Phonological Structure

Chapter 14 Demands on Syntactic Structure

Chapter 15 Finiteness, Truth, and Mood

Chapter 16 Subordinating Conjunctions

Chapter 17 Coordinating Conjunctions

Conclusion to Part I

Part II: Modes of Signifying

Prelude to Part II

Chapter 18 Modes of Signifying and of Troping

Chapter 19 Deverbal Nominalizations and the Genitive

Chapter 20 Non-deverbal Derived Nouns

Chapter 21 Adjectives, Nouns, and Valency

Chapter 22 Derived Adjectives

Chapter 23 Determinerization, Attributivization, and Adverbialization

Chapter 24 Adverbs, Attributives, and Nominal Compounds

Chapter 25 Verbs and Non-deverbal Verbalization

Chapter 26 Deverbal Verbs

Conclusion to Part II

Subplot: Commentary on the Text

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Anderson, John M. Categories

ISBN:

9783110724486

OCLC:

1312727402