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Apposition in Contemporary Eng

Apposition in Contemporary Eng

Hardcover

Series: Studies in English Language

Grammar & Style

ISBN10: 0521394759
ISBN13: 9780521394758
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 19 1992
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Apposition in Contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analyzed.

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