A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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... example again represents an instance of classificatory apposition , but its meaning is here characterized by the prevailing component of evaluative qualification . Another example is He confessed , poor lamb , that he had been misled ...
... example again represents an instance of classificatory apposition , but its meaning is here characterized by the prevailing component of evaluative qualification . Another example is He confessed , poor lamb , that he had been misled ...
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... example , in The organ of the party is frankly critical of the new move . Here English employs the adjectival qualification critical , which , however , does not fully correspond to the Czech adjective kritický . The Czech adjective ...
... example , in The organ of the party is frankly critical of the new move . Here English employs the adjectival qualification critical , which , however , does not fully correspond to the Czech adjective kritický . The Czech adjective ...
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... examples indicate that the semantic relation of an attributive adjective to its noun is looser in English than in Czech . There are instances that might be called brachylogical attributes from the Czech viewpoint . Thus , for example ...
... examples indicate that the semantic relation of an attributive adjective to its noun is looser in English than in Czech . There are instances that might be called brachylogical attributes from the Czech viewpoint . Thus , for example ...
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