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| Title | New Book: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar, Second Edition |
| Body | From http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924740-4 A Semantic Approach to English Grammar Second Edition R. M. W. Dixon Description This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go. - New edition of the most lucid, and the wittiest, introduction to English grammar - New chapters on tense and aspect, nominalizations and possession, and adverbs and negation - Wide appeal to linguistics and ESl students - Explains recent changes such as the decline and fall of the tabooed he New to this edition - New chapters on tense and aspect, nominalizations and possession, and adverbs and negation - New discussion of comparative forms of adjectives - Explains recent changes in English grammar, including how they has replaced the tabooed he as a pronoun referring to either gender, as in When a student reads this book, they will learn a lot about English grammar in a most enjoyable manner. For more information, visit http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924740-4 . |
| Source | Oxford University Press |
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