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The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are: the semantics and pragmatics of get -passives; the semantics of epistemic modality; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial - ing constructions; four controversies in the analysis of modality and modal auxiliaries; the functional classification of adverbials and the pragmatics of their position; the semantics and pragmatics of prepositional phrases with for .
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Papers on semantics and grammar, Richard Matthews
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Papers on semantics and grammar
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Richard Matthews
- Publisher
- Lang
- Released
- 1993
- ISBN10
- 3631408544
- ISBN13
- 9783631408544
- Category
- Other textbooks
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- The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are: the semantics and pragmatics of get -passives; the semantics of epistemic modality; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial - ing constructions; four controversies in the analysis of modality and modal auxiliaries; the functional classification of adverbials and the pragmatics of their position; the semantics and pragmatics of prepositional phrases with for .