Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110873907
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Verb System of Present-Day American English
Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110873907
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An Historical Syntax of the English Language
Author: F. Th VisserPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Time and the Verb
Author: Robert I. BinnickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195345134
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured.
English Traditional Grammars
Author: Gerhard LeitnerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245495
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This raises questions as to the relationship between theoretical linguistics and grammar writing and calls for more research into this area, especially for the period from 1800 onwards, which was crucial for the development of grammatical thinking and its acceptance (or rejection) at all educational levels today.This volume brings together work from international experts on the historiography of English grammar writing who deal with a variety of topics grouped into three overlapping sections: I. Native Grammars of English, II. Non-native Grammars of English, and III. Grammatical Analyses. The volume includes summaries of the articles and a name index.
Linguistics in North America, 1
Author: William BrightPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111418782
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
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Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Author: Dieter KastovskyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110856131
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Aspect in English
Author: K. KabakcievPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401593558
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Based on an earlier edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to one of the most controversial problems in linguistics. According to it, aspect is the result of a subtle and complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. This volume is of interest to researchers of aspect and related problems, theoretical and applied linguists, psycholinguists, philosophers of language, graduate students of general linguistics, English (Germanic), and Bulgarian (Slavic).
A Semantic and Pragmatic Examination of the English Perfect
Author: Peter FennPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878083726
Category : Engelsk grammatik
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Duration in English
Author: Lia KorrelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110859947
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Author: Reiko IkeoPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027246831
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth comparative analysis reveals previously undiscovered innovative features specific to how character discourse is presented in modern narratives. Notably, narrative tenses have an impact on thought presentation; in present-tense narrative, Free Direct Thought (FDT) emerges as frequently as Free Indirect Thought (FIT), a departure from the dominance of FIT in modern past-tense narrative. This book will be of interest to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and those who have found themselves absorbed in a 21st-century work of present-tense fiction.