A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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... ( according to luna , la lune ) . The names of mountains and rivers are often referred to as he ( cf. mons , fluvius ; in some cases , however , in accordance with Latin names rivers are personified as women ) . Even abstract ideas are ...
... ( according to luna , la lune ) . The names of mountains and rivers are often referred to as he ( cf. mons , fluvius ; in some cases , however , in accordance with Latin names rivers are personified as women ) . Even abstract ideas are ...
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... according to our definition it is not a sentence , since the statement does not satisfy the requirement of formal conventionality . 4. From the formal point of view , the above definition further requires the sentence to be subjectively ...
... according to our definition it is not a sentence , since the statement does not satisfy the requirement of formal conventionality . 4. From the formal point of view , the above definition further requires the sentence to be subjectively ...
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... according to whether the preposition is closely joined to the rest of the prepositional phrase or not . According to Deutschbein this is revealed in the passive . If we transform the sentence People everywhere were talking of the ...
... according to whether the preposition is closely joined to the rest of the prepositional phrase or not . According to Deutschbein this is revealed in the passive . If we transform the sentence People everywhere were talking of the ...
Contents
A Functional onomatology | 17 |
a Definition of compound words | 28 |
Shortening of words and coining of new naming units | 34 |
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2nd person adjective adverbial adverbial adjunct analysis apposition aspectual modification basic categorial transitions collocation colloquial common compared compounds construed corresponds Czech and German Czech sentence Czech verb Czech word Czech word order dative definition deixis denotes DEUTSCHBEIN English employs English verb example expressed fact finite verb formal French functional sentence perspective gender genitive gerund grammatical person grammatical subject Hence independent word Indo-European languages infinitive instances JESPERSEN jsem kind král language Latin linguistic Mathesius meaning ModE morpheme naming unit negation negative Neogrammarian nominal one-element passive construction passive predication periphrastic phonetic plural POLDAUF possessive Prague predication prefix prepositional phrase Present Day English present participle preterite pronominal pronoun reference reflexive reflexive pronoun reflexive verbs relation rheme semantic sentence element Similarly singular sometimes speaker speech substantival suffix syntactic tense theme tion utterance VACHEK verbal action verbal aspect verbal noun verbless sentences whereas word categories word order