A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisWalter de Gruyter, 1975 - 228 pages |
Contents
On the scientific study of language | 9 |
A Functional onomatology | 17 |
The form of the naming unit | 23 |
Classification of naming units | 38 |
Classification within the word categories | 45 |
Formal categories and aspectual modifications of verbs | 58 |
Categorial transitions of the verb in English | 74 |
Functional sentence analysis | 81 |
Predication in English | 104 |
The English sentence as a whole | 146 |
Notes on other problems of functional syntax | 171 |
Bibliography | 191 |
106 | 199 |
Editors postscript to the original Czech edition 1961 | 203 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectival adjective adverbial analysis apposition aspectual aspectual modification attribute basic collocations colloquial common compared complex compounds context copula corresponding Czech and German Czech sentence Czech verb Czech word Czech word order dative definition deixis denotes DEUTSCHBEIN discussed English sentence English verb example expressed fact finite verb FIRBAS formal French functional sentence perspective genitive gerund grammatical person grammatical principle Indo-European languages infinitive instances inversion JESPERSEN jsem kind král language linguistic Mathesius meaning ModE Modern English morpheme naming unit negation negative Neogrammarian nominal one-element passive predication periphrastic phonetics plural POLDAUF possessive predication prefix prepositional Present Day English present participle preterite problems pronominal pronoun reference reflexive reflexive verbs relation rheme semantic sentence element Similarly sometimes speaker speech subordinate clause substantival suffix syntactic syntax tense theme tion utterance VACHEK verbal action verbal aspect verbal form verbal noun verbless sentences VILÉM whereas word order