Prepositions And Complement Clauses

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791428733
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prepositions and Complement Clauses written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers. Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complementation in British and American English written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today.

Author : Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887069321
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complementation and Case Grammar written by Juhani Rudanko and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-07-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko’s work on infinitive complements.

Author : Solveig Granath
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verb Complementation in English written by Solveig Granath and published by ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Courtney Tarr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prepositional Complementary Clauses in Spanish written by Frederick Courtney Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272875
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prepositions in Old and Middle English written by Tom Lundskær-Nielsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a detailed semantic analysis of the three prepositions at, in and on in selected Old and Middle English texts, which shows to what extent the relative distribution of these prepositions changed during that period and how they gradually acquired new, extended senses.The front cover illustration renders the 895 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Parker Ms., and has been reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Author : Rodney Huddleston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848374
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Introduction to English Grammar written by Rodney Huddleston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken. This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics. It contains exercises, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education.

Author : Sami Uljas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047420489
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses written by Sami Uljas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work proposes a novel analysis of Complement Clauses in Earlier Egyptian language. Contrary to previous assumptions, the grammatical organisation of these constructions is shown to be based on differentiation between Realis and Irrealis modality. The different types of complement clauses attested in Earlier Egyptian are surveyed utilising recent linguistic research on modality and pragmatics. The discussion is based on numerous examples from the ancient texts and on comparisons with many other languages. Emerging from this investigation is a coherent and principled system for expressing Realis and Irrealis meaning in this most ancient of written languages. This book is of notable value to Egyptologists working with texts and to all those interested in modality, grammar, and cognition.

Author : Sean Allison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004422676
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Makary Kotoko written by Sean Allison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.

Author : Walter Schweikert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294003
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause written by Walter Schweikert and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses established and new syntactic and statistical tests to achieve a convincing hierarchy of thematic roles expressed by prepositional phrases. From an antisymmetric point of departure the author presents an overview of possible derivations that result in the observed different word orders of PPs in VO and OV languages. It leads to a refreshing new proposal of how to include morphology into syntax. The plausibility of this model is underscored by a wide range of explanatory data. This book is indispensable for linguists interested in the syntax of modifiers.