Grammars And Descriptions

Author : Mário Alberto Perini
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030781755

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Function and Class in Linguistic Description by Mário Alberto Perini Pdf

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and is based on the use of distinctive features analogous to the ones used in phonology, which entails a radical reworking of the traditional classification. The first part presents some basic notions such as the use of distinctive features and the role of word classes in grammar; classification by prototypes; and the use of world knowledge as a resource to assign thematic relations to constituents in the sentence. In the second part, some descriptive problems are examined, namely the classification of verbs according to valency; connectives, adverbs, and the internal constituents of the NP; and the classification of units larger than words. This book will be of use as a guide for linguists working on the description of natural languages, as well as a resource for students on courses in linguistic theory and description.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk,János S. Petöfi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110839609

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Grammars and Descriptions by Teun A. van Dijk,János S. Petöfi Pdf

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Author : J. R. Martin,Beatriz Quiroz,Giacomo Figueredo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108493796

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Interpersonal Grammar by J. R. Martin,Beatriz Quiroz,Giacomo Figueredo Pdf

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

Author : Teun Adrianus van Dijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : OCLC:622253120

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Grammars and Descriptions by Teun Adrianus van Dijk Pdf

Author : Thomas Edward Payne,David Weber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722241X

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Perspectives on Grammar Writing by Thomas Edward Payne,David Weber Pdf

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Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804263

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Some Aspects of Text Grammars by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

Author : Ann Hewings,Martin Hewings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415310806

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Grammar and Context by Ann Hewings,Martin Hewings Pdf

Grammar and Context: considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey. The accompanying website to this book can be found at http: //www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415310814/

Author : Casey Keck,YouJin Kim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027269317

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Pedagogical Grammar by Casey Keck,YouJin Kim Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedagogical grammar research and explores its implications for the teaching of grammar in second language classrooms. Drawing on several research domains (e.g., corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching) and a number of theoretical orientations (e.g., cognitive, sociocultural), the book proposes a framework for pedagogical grammar which brings together three major areas of inquiry: (1) descriptions of grammar in use, (2) descriptions of grammar acquisition processes, and (3) investigations of the relative effectiveness of different approaches to L2 grammar instruction. The book balances research and theory with practical discussions of the decisions that teachers must make on a daily basis, offering guidance in such areas as materials development, data-driven learning, task design, and classroom assessment.

Author : Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317665045

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Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts by Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang Pdf

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

Author : Rachel Grenon
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802743587

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Grammar by Rachel Grenon Pdf

In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true? Rhetoric asks: Which is the right sentence? Grammar purely asks: When is a sentence correct? In Grammar, Rachel Grenon defines the rules governing the construction of words, phrases, sentences, and extended text or speech. Beginning with the rules behind ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, she then focuses on how the rules of English have developed-from nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, to tenses, the passive voice, questions, imperatives, and much more. With diagrams, engravings, and witty cartoon illustrations, this original take on a classic subject is essential for anyone interested in language.

Author : Roger Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108419994

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Doing English Grammar by Roger Berry Pdf

By combining theory and practice, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the whole process of English grammar teaching.

Author : Jila Ghomeshi
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1894037448

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Grammar Matters by Jila Ghomeshi Pdf

It is hard to find someone who doesn't have a pet peeve about language. The act of bemoaning the decline of language has become something of a cottage industry. High profile, self-appointed language police worry that new forms of popular media are contributing to sloppiness, imprecision, and a general disregard for the rules of grammar and speech. Within linguistics the term "prescriptivism" is used to refer to the judgements that people make about language based on the idea that some forms and uses of language are correct and others incorrect. This book argues that prescriptivism is unfounded at its very core, and explores why it is, nevertheless, such a popular position. In doing so it addresses the politics of language: what prescriptivist positions about language use reveal about power, authority, and various social prejudices.

Author : Norbert Hornstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262081377

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Logic as Grammar by Norbert Hornstein Pdf

How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489901620

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The Grammar of Discourse by Robert E. Longacre Pdf

In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191544798

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Radical Construction Grammar by William Croft Pdf

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'. Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.