A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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... predication from the formal point of view The following discussion will be divided according to what the predication denotes . The first large group is represented by instances of actional predication , i . e . a predication that ...
... predication from the formal point of view The following discussion will be divided according to what the predication denotes . The first large group is represented by instances of actional predication , i . e . a predication that ...
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... predication effected by adjectival qualification . This type of predication is very characteristic of English . That is to say , English can express action by an adjective ... predication from the semantic point of view: active predication.
... predication effected by adjectival qualification . This type of predication is very characteristic of English . That is to say , English can express action by an adjective ... predication from the semantic point of view: active predication.
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... predication according to their forms . Having treated the participial form of passive predication , which is the most common of all , we must mention its four other forms . The second type of passive predication to be briefly mentioned ...
... predication according to their forms . Having treated the participial form of passive predication , which is the most common of all , we must mention its four other forms . The second type of passive predication to be briefly mentioned ...
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