A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

by R.M.W. Dixon

Book Overview

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199247404
• ISBN13: 9780199247400
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.7"