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Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.
This book, first published in 1950, is a collection of what the author felt to be the minimum of English grammar relevant to efficient communication in language. The scope of this title was determined by collecting from children’s writings examples of common faults and weaknesses, and it is through these texts that certain concepts emerged as fundamental, including predication, word-order, proximity, equivalents, variety and repetition. Pattern in English will be of interest to students of English language.
The present study is situated at the interface of morphology and lexical semantics. It investigates the semantics of two derivational English suffixes: -age and -ery. Although some recent investigations have started to study the semantics of affixation systematically (e.g. Lieber 2004), there are, on the whole, very few thorough accounts of the semantics of derivational morphology. This leads Lieber (2012: 2108) to claim that “the most neglected area of morphological theory in the last three decades has been derivational semantics”.
Thinking English Translation is a practical guide to analysing and translating English source texts.
Section I focuses on pre-translation analysis where students are guided to consider the features of a variety of English texts and the various implications for translation into other languages.
Section II examines language variety in English in more detail and provides strategies for dealing with translation challenges in a wide range of text types.
Thinking English Translation gives students a framework for a better understanding of how to approach source texts in order to tackle translation assignments, whether in class or in the workplace, with confidence.
