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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-46367-3
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- XX, 178
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- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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- 400 HEQ a
The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies
This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a g…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-46504-2
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- XII, 204, 8 b/w illustrations
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- The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies
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Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach
This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with respect to some model of the way things happen to be; and (ii) stages of interpretation, i.e., ways to arrive at meaning…
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