English mediopassive constructions: A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status
This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction.
Concord is a grammatical term in linguistics referring to the relationship between words whereby a form of one word requires a corresponding form of another eg the rules governing the singular and plural of 'he walks' as opposed to 'they walk'. This book describes the processes involved when we read concordances, using real life examples taken from spoken English corpuses. The book is a practical volume, providing exercises and examples taken from corpora as each topic is introduced. The reader is encouraged to build on their knowledge as they are taken through the topics step-by step.
This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. Building from fundamentals, it brings fresh insight to the analysis of varied grammatical phenomena. Topics considered in depth include constructions, grounding, clause structure, and complex sentences. The book is of interest to anyone concerned with the conceptual basis of meaning and linguistic structure.
Пособие для студентов пединститутов. Общий обзор черт английского языка в различных частях света (первая часть; Европа вне Англии, Америка, Азия, Африка, Австралия и Океания) и описание некоторых гибридных языков (вторая часть; Pidgin English в Китае, Австралии, Океании, на Гавайских островах, а также Kroo English и Fanagalo English). Завершают обзор креольские языки (Taki-Taki English и Питкэрнский диалект). В отдельных случаях приводятся краткие тексты, иллюстрирующие особенности английского языка на той или иной территории.
Given that context-free grammars (CFG) cannot adequately describe natural languages, grammar formalisms beyond CFG that are still computationally tractable are of central interest for computational linguists. This book provides an extensive overview of the formal language landscape between CFG and PTIME, moving from Tree Adjoining Grammars to Multiple Context-Free Grammars and then to Range Concatenation Grammars while explaining available parsing techniques for these formalisms.
