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Apposition in Contemporary English
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Main Details
| Title |
Apposition in Contemporary English
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Charles F. Meyer
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| Series | Studies in English Language |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:168 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Grammar and syntax |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521394758
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| Classifications | Dewey:425 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
19 March 1992 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Reviews"...the study provides a meticulous documentation of subtypes of apposition, and the corpus-based approach allows for the study of variation..." Language
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