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Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Aarts, Meyer (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, The Verb in Contemporary English: Aarts, Meyer (Eds)
Message 1: The Verb in Contemporary English: Aarts, Meyer (Eds)
Date: 14-Jul-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: The Verb in Contemporary English: Aarts, Meyer (Eds)


Title: The Verb in Contemporary English Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521026543

Editor: Bas Aarts, University College London Editor: Charles F. Meyer Paperback: ISBN: 0521026547 Pages: 325 Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521026547 Pages: 325 Price: U.S. $ 48.00
Abstract:

This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. Theauthors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studiedfrom both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In Part One, theauthors explore topics such as the terminological problems ofclassification, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbsand verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice andmodality. In Part Two, computer corpora are used to study various types ofverb complements and collocations, to trace the development in English ofcertain verb forms, and to detail the usage of verbs in different varietiesand genres of English.

List of contributors;Preface;1. Introduction: theoretical and descriptive approaches to the study of theverb in English Bas Aarts and Charles F. Meyer;Part I. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the English Verb:2. Grammatical relations in English Charles F. Meyer;3. Competence without comp? Richard Hudson;4. On the semantics of the object I. M. Schlesinger;5. Secondary predicates in English Bas Aarts;6. The English perfect as a secondary past tense Rodney Huddleston;7.'How does this sentence interpret?' The semantics of Englishmediopassives Andrew Rosta;8. The expression of root and epistemic possibility in English JenniferCoates;Part II. Descriptive Approaches to the Study of the English Verb:9. Find and want: a corpus-based case study in verb complementation JanAarts and Flor Aarts;10. Indeterminacy between noun phrases and adjective phrases as complementsof the English verb Geoffrey Leech and Lu Li;11. Having a look at the expanded predicate John Algeo;12. 'This scheme is badly needed': some aspects of verb-adverb collocationsStig Johanssen;13. That and zero complementisers in late modern English: exploring ARCHERfrom 1650 1990 Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber;14. Changing patterns of complementation, and concomitantgrammaticalisation, of the verb help in present-day British EnglishChristian Mair;15. Verbs in public and private speaking Jan Svartvik and Olof Ekedahl;16. Some remarks on comment clauses Anna-Brita Stenström;Index of names;Subject index.


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics                             Semantics                             Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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