Complementation : its meanings and forms / Evelyn N. Ransom.
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complemen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1986.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 10. |
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| Summary: | This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) |
| ISBN: | 9789027279187 9027279187 1283313944 9781283313940 9786613313942 6613313947 |