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The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs : Patterns that Matter / Joseph Embley Emonds.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 147Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 266 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110738711
  • 9783110734416
  • 9783110734379
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1271 .E46 2022
  • PE1271 .E46 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 English modals and be are not irregular verbs -- 2 The single English Past morpheme –ed / -en -- 3 Regular inflections and contractions: Limits on grammatical irregularity -- 4 Polyfunctional –ing: Can any other language match it? -- 5 Gerunds vs. infinitives: Less alike than they look -- 6 English passive structures and the passive participle -- 7 The empirical basis of theoretical advance -- References -- Index of cited authors -- Index of definitions, principles, tables and trees -- Index of English lexical entries
Summary: The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110734379

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 English modals and be are not irregular verbs -- 2 The single English Past morpheme –ed / -en -- 3 Regular inflections and contractions: Limits on grammatical irregularity -- 4 Polyfunctional –ing: Can any other language match it? -- 5 Gerunds vs. infinitives: Less alike than they look -- 6 English passive structures and the passive participle -- 7 The empirical basis of theoretical advance -- References -- Index of cited authors -- Index of definitions, principles, tables and trees -- Index of English lexical entries

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The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)