Grammar and Meaning: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

ISBN-13: 9780582028753 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 308 str.

Howard Jackson

Opis

An exploration of the semantic approach to grammar. Topics covered in this work range from co-ordination and conjunction in combining propositions, to tense, aspect and modality in specifying states, events and actions.

Spis treści

List of key diagrams and tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 States, Events, Actions: Verbs
2. Participants: Nouns
3 Circumstances: Adverbs and prepositions
4 Specifying States, Events and Actions: Tense, aspect and modality
5 Specifying Participants: Determinatives and modifiers
6 Propositions: Sentences
7 Propositions as Participants and Specifiers: Embedded clauses
8 Propositions as Circumstances: Adverbial clauses
9 Combining Propositions: Co-ordination and conjunction
10 Messages: Texts. References

Key to Exercises
Glossary of Terms
Index

O autorze

Howard Jackson