Towards a Contextual Grammar of English

The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence

AvEugene Winter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-25
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138918535

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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