A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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Page 69
... action can be conceived differ- ently according to the phase of its course . We can express verbal action as something that is taking place , i . e . with emphasis on the course of the action without regard to its beginning or end ...
... action can be conceived differ- ently according to the phase of its course . We can express verbal action as something that is taking place , i . e . with emphasis on the course of the action without regard to its beginning or end ...
Page 104
... action . Let us first consider it from the formal point of view . In what manner is actional predication expressed ? There are significant differences in this respect between Czech and English . In Czech , one almost invariably ...
... action . Let us first consider it from the formal point of view . In what manner is actional predication expressed ? There are significant differences in this respect between Czech and English . In Czech , one almost invariably ...
Page 105
... action is again expressed nominally by the noun accumulation , here conceived passively , the subject of the action being joined to it by the preposition of . A somewhat different type is constituted by constructions about which one is ...
... action is again expressed nominally by the noun accumulation , here conceived passively , the subject of the action being joined to it by the preposition of . A somewhat different type is constituted by constructions about which one is ...
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