A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic BasisDe Gruyter, Incorporated, 1975 - 232 pages |
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... speaker reacts to some reality is not a sentence unless the utterance has a form that is common in the particular language . Let us imagine that a foreigner with elementary knowledge of Czech says Venku prđet [ outside to - rain ] . It ...
... speaker reacts to some reality is not a sentence unless the utterance has a form that is common in the particular language . Let us imagine that a foreigner with elementary knowledge of Czech says Venku prđet [ outside to - rain ] . It ...
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... speaker reacts to some reality in a manner that appears to be formally customary and subjectively complete , and yet it is a one - element sentence . It contains only the rheme , its theme being what the first speaker said before . This ...
... speaker reacts to some reality in a manner that appears to be formally customary and subjectively complete , and yet it is a one - element sentence . It contains only the rheme , its theme being what the first speaker said before . This ...
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... speaker or even the hearer . The general subject that includes the speaker expresses some general truth that becomes topical in a particular situation ( Člověk nikdy neví [ One never knows ] ) . Sometimes Czech employs 2nd person to ...
... speaker or even the hearer . The general subject that includes the speaker expresses some general truth that becomes topical in a particular situation ( Člověk nikdy neví [ One never knows ] ) . Sometimes Czech employs 2nd person to ...
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