
Apposition in Contemporary English
Charles F. Meyer(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 25. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-521-03313-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analysed.
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"...the study provides a meticulous documentation of subtypes of apposition, and the corpus-based approach allows for the study of variation..." LanguageMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-03313-8 (9780521033138)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
List of figures; Preface; 1. Apposition as a grammatical relation; 2. The syntax of apposition; 3. The semantics of apposition; 4. The pragmatics of apposition; 5. Apposition in the grammar of English; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.