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Author Helke, Michael, 1943- author.

Title The grammar of English reflexives / Michael Helke
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015
©1979

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Series Routledge library editions. The English language ; volume 12
Routledge library editions. English language ; v. 12
Contents Chapter 1 Chapter One -- chapter 2 Chapter Two -- chapter 3 Chapter Three -- chapter 4 Chapter Four
Summary This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. The first chapter of this thesis concerns the supposed complementarity of reflexives and ordinary anaphoric pronouns. In the second chapter a theory of reflexivisation is characterised which encompasses several other theories. The third chapter considers apparent counter-examples to the generalizations regarding reflexives that were established in Chapter Two. The fourth chapter concerns the meaning of reflexive
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Subject English language -- Pronoun.
English language -- Reflexives.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
English language -- Pronoun
English language -- Reflexives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317420354
1317420357