Papers on Semantics and Grammar - Matthews, Richard. C. L.
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The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are: the semantics and pragmatics of get -passives; the semantics of epistemic modality; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial - ing constructions; four…mehr

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The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are: the semantics and pragmatics of get -passives; the semantics of epistemic modality; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial - ing constructions; four controversies in the analysis of modality and modal auxiliaries; the functional classification of adverbials and the pragmatics of their position; the semantics and pragmatics of prepositional phrases with for .
Autorenporträt
The author: Richard Matthews was born in Newton Abbot in 1946. He studied at the universities of East Anglia and Vienna, graduating in East Anglia in 1969. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1979. He worked on a project on the tensing system of English from 1983-1985, and has been a co-editor of Kritikon Litterarum since 1975. His monograph on modality Words and Worlds appeared in 1991 (also published by Peter Lang). He teaches English Language and Linguistics at the University of Freiburg.