Towards a Contextual Grammar of English : The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence

ISBN-13: 9781138918535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str.

Eugene Winter;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part 1: The Nature of the Clause;  1. Sentence and Clause in English  2. The Clause as Sole Device of Lexical Selection  3. The Contrast in Grammatical Status Between Clauses;  Part 2: Subordination in English;  4. Subordination and the Contextualisation of the Main Clause  5. The Relative Clause  6. The Noun Clause: the That-Clause and the Wh-Clause  7. Adverbial Clauses with Subordinators  8. Non-Finite Clauses Which Have No Subordinators  9. Postmodifying Structures Other Than Relative and Adverbial Clause: Apposition and Interpolation;  Part 3: Attempting a Definition of Sentence;  10. Summing Up the Clause as a Preliminary to Defining ‘Sentence’  11. The Proposed Complementary Definitions of Sentence;  Bibliography;  Index

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