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Premodifiers in English
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2012. 2. 2. 23:17
Premodifiers in English
Their Structure and Significance
- 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.