Grammar and Meaning: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

ISBN-13: 9781138466807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

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 tablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 States, Events, Actions: Verbs2. Participants: Nouns3 Circumstances: Adverbs and prepositions4 Specifying States, Events and Actions: Tense, aspect and modality5 Specifying Participants: Determinatives and modifiers6 Propositions: Sentences7 Propositions as Participants and Specifiers: Embedded clauses8 Propositions as Circumstances: Adverbial clauses9 Combining Propositions: Co-ordination and conjunction10 Messages: Texts. ReferencesKey to ExercisesGlossary of TermsIndex

O autorze

Howard Jackson