Eugene Winter

Towards a Contextual Grammar of English (eBook, ePUB)

The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000156126
• Artikelnr.: 60119012

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Inhaltsangabe

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