Premodifiers in English: Their Structure and Significance (Studies in English Language)

The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both 'German and English speakers' and 'English and German speakers'? Why do some premodifiers change the meaning of a phrase in some contexts; for example 'young man', can mean 'boyfriend', rather than 'man who is young'? Drawing on a corpus of over 4,000 examples of English premodifiers from a range of genres such as advertising, fiction and scientific texts, and across several varieties of English, this book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.
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An aparitie	2014
Autor	Jim Feist
Dimensiuni	15.2 x 1.5 x 22.9 cm
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781107654846
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	290