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_cUk
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082 0 4 _a425
_bMEY
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100 1 _aMeyer, Charles F.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aApposition in contemporary English /
_cCharles F. Meyer.
264 1 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axiv, 152 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aStudies in English language
500 _aFirst published 1992.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Apposition in contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. Derived from the Survey of English Usage Corpus of Written British English, the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-day American English, and the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken British English, it provides detailed discussion of the linguistic characteristics of apposition and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing. These include press reportage, fiction, learned writing, and spontaneous conversation. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation (like complementation and modification) realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. Thus, syntactically, apposition is most frequently a relation between two juxtaposed noun phrases having a syntactic function (such as a direct object) promoting end-weight. Semantically, it is typically a relation between two referentially related units, the second of which adds specificity to the interpretation of the first. Pragmatically, different kinds of apposition have different communicative functions."--Jacket.
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xApposition.
_2EG-ScBUE
653 _bHHUUEENN
_cSeptember2019
655 _vReading book
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