Premodifiers in English - Their Structure and Significance

Informationen zum Autor Jim Feist is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Klappentext Synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use. Zusammenfassung 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. This book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour! order and use. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Feist, Feist Jim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107000865
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00086-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures