A grammar of English. Volume 2 : structures / John M. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

A Grammar of English ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (660 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

Parts I and II are available in A Grammar of English. Volume 1: Categories

Preface

Part III: Lexicon

Prelude to Part III: Formatives, words, compounds, and phrases

Chapter 27 Derivational Morphology and Morphosyntax

Chapter 28 Word Accent, Morphophonology, and Phonology

Chapter 29 Inflectional Morphology and Functional Categories

Chapter 30 Compounds and Affixes

Chapter 31 Sourceless Compounds

Chapter 32 Lexical Phrases, and Localism

Chapter 33 Icon and Metaphor

Chapter 34 Figurativeness

Conclusion to Part III

Part IV: Syntax

Prelude

Fit the 1st: Finites

Chapter 35 Mood, Existence, Negation, and Scope

Chapter 36 Subject-Selection, Notional Weakening, and Grammatical Periphrases 10.1515/9783110729504-013

Chapter 37 Subordinate Finites

Fit the 2nd: Non-Finites

Chapter 38 Gerunds and Participles

Chapter 39 Infinitives

Fit the 3rd: Placement, Alt-Placement, and Sub-Placement

Chapter 40 The Syntax of Determiners

Chapter 41 Co-indices: Mobility and Ellipsis

Chapter 42 Co-indices and Pre-utterance Phonology

Envoi

Subplot: Commentary on the Text

References

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Anderson, John M. Structures

ISBN:

9783110729504