Apposition in Contemporary English

by Charles F. Meyer

Book Overview

Apposition in Contemporary English is a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521033136
• ISBN13: 9780521033138
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"