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Paperback A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic Principles Book

ISBN: 0198240570

ISBN13: 9780198240570

A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic Principles

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This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investigating the interrelation of grammar and meaning, Dixon uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words. He offers a review of some of the main points of English syntax, as well as a discussion of English verbs in terms of semantic types. Finally, he examines five...

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