02217cam a22003135a 4500 27598 27569 008759847 EG-ScBUE 20190909102207.0 920320s2006 enka f b 001 0 eng d 0521394759 (pbk.) 9780521033138 (pbk.) Uk eng rda Uk EG-ScBUE 425 MEY 22 Meyer, Charles F. author. Apposition in contemporary English / Charles F. Meyer. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Studies in English language First published 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Apposition in contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. Derived from the Survey of English Usage Corpus of Written British English, the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-day American English, and the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken British English, it provides detailed discussion of the linguistic characteristics of apposition and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing. These include press reportage, fiction, learned writing, and spontaneous conversation. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation (like complementation and modification) realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. Thus, syntactically, apposition is most frequently a relation between two juxtaposed noun phrases having a syntactic function (such as a direct object) promoting end-weight. Semantically, it is typically a relation between two referentially related units, the second of which adds specificity to the interpretation of the first. Pragmatically, different kinds of apposition have different communicative functions."--Jacket. English language Apposition. EG-ScBUE HHUUEENN September2019 Reading book ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2019-09-09 Purchase 310.00 0 425 MEY 000048034 2025-07-15 00:00:00 387.50 2019-09-09 BB