Premodifiers in English - Info and Reading Options
their structure and significance
By Jim Feist
"Premodifiers in English" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 - Cambridge, it has 276 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Premodifiers in English” Metadata:
- Title: Premodifiers in English
- Author: Jim Feist
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 276
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 2012
- Publish Location: Cambridge
“Premodifiers in English” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: Adjective - English language - English language, syntax
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xi, 276 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25277405M - OL16593166W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 761366648
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2012372503
- ISBN-13: 9781107000865
- ISBN-10: 1107000866
- All ISBNs: 1107000866 - 9781107000865
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"Premodifiers in English" 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.
"Premodifiers in English" Description:
The Open Library:
"The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both 'German and English speakers' and 'English and German speakers'? Why do some premodifiers change the meaning of a phrase in some contexts; for example 'young man', can mean 'boyfriend', rather than 'man who is young'? 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."--Publisher's website.
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