Apposition In Contemporary English

by Charles F. Meyer

2020-12-29 09:33:27

Apposition in Contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and Ameri... Read more
Apposition in Contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analyzed. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.94 X 0.43 in
Print pages168
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date January 25, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521033138

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