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Premodifiers in English

Premodifiers in English

Their Structure and Significance
  • Jim Feist, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Hardback

Drawing on a corpus of over 4,000 examples of English premodifiers from a range of genres such as advertising, fiction and scientific texts, and across several varieties of English, this book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.

Series: Studies in English Language
  • ISBN:9781107000865
  • Publication date:December 2011
  • 288pages
  • 19 b/w illus. 110 tables
    • Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
    • Weight: 0.58kg

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction
    2. Zones, and types of order
    3. Semantic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
    4. Syntactic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
    5. Unmarked order within the classifier zone
    6. Free order
    7. Marked order
    8. Historical explanation of premodifier order
    9. Supporting explanations of premodifier order
    10. Discussion
    11. Conclusion.