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Negative Contexts - Collocation, Polarity And Multiple Negation

by Ton Van Der Wouden

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.
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Intensifiers In English And German - A Comparison

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 This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written.
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Negation In Non-Standard British English - Gaps, Regularizations And Asymmetries

by Lieselotte Anderwald

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 Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation.
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When-Clauses And Temporal Structure

by Renaat H. C. Declerck

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 Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
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The Meaning Of Topic And Focus - The 59th Street Bridge Accent

by Daniel Buring

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 Based on examples from German and English, this study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics.
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Vernacular Universals And Language Contacts - Evidence From Varieties Of English And Beyond

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change.
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Reciprocity In English - Historical Development And Synchronic Structure

by Florian Haas

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 This book provides the first comprehensive account of how the expression of reciprocity in English has developed and how it is organized in todayâ€™s language. Combining insights from different strands of research with original corpus-based work, this study will be of interest to theoretically and descriptively oriented linguists alike.
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Negative Contexts - Collocation, Polarity And Multiple Negation

by Ton Van Der Wouden

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.
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English And Celtic In Contact

by Heli Paulasto, Juhani Klemola e Markku Filppula

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 English and Celtic in Contact provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects as well as the reflexes of later, early modern, and modern contacts.
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Grammar Of Identity - Intensifiers And Reflexives In Germanic Languages

by Volker Gast

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 This original treatment of an extremely complex and interesting subject matter within Germanic languages and theoretical linguistics, investigates why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages around the world.
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Elliptical Noun Phrase In English - Structure And Use

by Christine Gunther

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 <p>This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on the (oft-neglected) parallels between the two. She also examines the use of noun ellipsis with adjectives in order to shed light on this under-researched phenomenon, drawing on data from the British National Corpus.</p>
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Elliptical Noun Phrase In English - Structure And Use

by Christine Gunther

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 <p>This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on the (oft-neglected) parallels between the two. She also examines the use of noun ellipsis with adjectives in order to shed light on this under-researched phenomenon, drawing on data from the British National Corpus.</p>
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The Grammar Of Identity - Intensifiers And Reflexives In Germanic Languages

by Volker (Free University Berlin, Germany.) Gast

75,69€ + 10% CARD

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 This original treatment of an extremely complex and interesting subject matter within Germanic languages and theoretical linguistics, investigates why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages around the world.
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Grammar Of Irish English - Language In Hibernian Style

by Markku Filppula

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This work offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Irish English, also known as 'Hiberno-English'. It examines Hiberno_English dialects past and present and their distinctive grammatical features
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Grammar Of Irish English - Language In Hibernian Style

by Markku Filppula

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This work offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Irish English, also known as 'Hiberno-English'. It examines Hiberno_English dialects past and present and their distinctive grammatical features
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When-Clauses And Temporal Structure

by Renaat H. C. Declerck

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
ENGLISH

When-Clauses And Temporal Structure

by Renaat H. C. Declerck

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
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Aspectual Grammar And Past Time Reference

by Laura A. Michaelis

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.
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Aspectual Grammar And Past Time Reference

by Laura A. Michaelis

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.
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Negation In Non-Standard British English - Gaps, Regularizations And Asymmetries

by Lieselotte Anderwald

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation.
ENGLISH

Negation In Non-Standard British English - Gaps, Regularizations And Asymmetries

by Lieselotte Anderwald

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation.
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Stretched Verb Constructions In English

by D. J. Allerton

74,34€ + 10% CARD

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 This book investigates the use of constructions such as 'make an accusation against' or 'give one's approval of' which can be seen as 'stretched' versions of simple verbs such as 'accuse' or 'approve of'.
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Pronominal Gender In English - A Study Of English Varieties From A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Peter Siemund

79,75€ + 10% CARD

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 The book investigates the use of the pronouns he and she for inanimate objects (tree, house, bucket, etc.) across different varieties of English. It is the first book-length study of this subject.
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Vernacular Universals And Language Contacts - Evidence From Varieties Of English And Beyond

79,75€ + 10% CARD

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 Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change.
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