A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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... language of written documents is determined by the style of the particular literary work and consequently does not represent the language in its entirety . This point can be illustrated by nominal clauses in English . In Old English ...
... language of written documents is determined by the style of the particular literary work and consequently does not represent the language in its entirety . This point can be illustrated by nominal clauses in English . In Old English ...
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... language is as important and worthwhile as the historical study . It compares languages both analytically and genetically , and differs from the previous currents mainly in two respects . First , it approaches language on principle from ...
... language is as important and worthwhile as the historical study . It compares languages both analytically and genetically , and differs from the previous currents mainly in two respects . First , it approaches language on principle from ...
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... language or a language system . Secondly , we can examine encoding from the aspect of a spoken ( or written ) utterance , i . e . observe the means ( acoustic or graphic ) by which the encoding of the content of thought is communicated ...
... language or a language system . Secondly , we can examine encoding from the aspect of a spoken ( or written ) utterance , i . e . observe the means ( acoustic or graphic ) by which the encoding of the content of thought is communicated ...
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