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Author Ransom, Evelyn N.

Title Complementation : its meanings and forms / Evelyn N. Ransom
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)
Series Typological studies in language ; v. 10
Typological studies in language ; v. 10
Contents COMPLEMENTATION: ITS MEANINGS AND FORMS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. An Introduction to Complement Meanings and Forms; CHAPTER II. The Information Modalities; CHAPTER III. The Evaluation Modalities; CHAPTER IV. The Combined Modalities; CHAPTER V. The Higher Sentence and Its Complement Modalities; CHAPTER VI. The Representation of Modality and Its Implications; REFERENCES
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226)
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement.
Modality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
Modality (Linguistics)
Complement (taalkunde)
Modaliteit.
Phrase verbale.
Compléments (linguistique)
Modalité (linguistique)
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ISBN 9789027279187
9027279187
1283313944
9781283313940
9786613313942
6613313947