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Apposition in Contemporary English (Studies in English Language)

By Charles F. Meyer

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0521394759, 9780521394758, 0521033136, 9780521033138, 9780511597824
LCC
PE1395 .M49 1992
Open Library ID
OL1539956M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4535111 bytes)
Pages
168\166
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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