Structural Ambiguity in English - An Applied Grammatical Inventory

Informationen zum Autor Dallin D. Oaks is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Brigham Young University, USA. Vorwort An innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Zusammenfassung Focuses on describing those features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities. This book utilizes a comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviours, and how they can be manipulated in the creation of structural ambiguities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume IPart I: Preliminary Considerations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Pragmatics and Structural Ambiguity 3. Phonological Influences on Structural Ambiguity4. Auxiliary Verbs and Clause Types 5. Inventory of Affixes, Contractions, and Morphological Processes Part II: The Lexical Inventory ---Form Classes 6. Inventory of Nouns 7. Inventory of Verbs, Part I: Transitive Verbs 8. Inventory of Verbs, Part II: Additional Verbs 9. Inventory of Adjectives and Adverbs Volume IIPart III: The Lexical Inventory---Structure Classes 10. Inventory of Pronouns 11. Inventory of Prepositions 12. Inventory of Conjunctions Part IV: Scope and Modification 13. Inventory of Prenominal Modifiers 14. Inventory of Other Modification and Scope Ambiguities Part V: Other Syntactic Considerations 15. Ellipsis 16. Questions and Indirect Reported Speech 17. Fixed Expressions Conclusion 18. Conclusion and Formulas Appendices Index

Product details

• Authors: Dallin Oaks, Dallin D Oaks, Dallin D. Oaks
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2010
• EAN: 9781847064158
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-415-8
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc