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Название: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Second Edition
Автор: R. M. W. Dixon
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 562
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English
This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go