Paperback, xii + 227 pages, NOT ex-library. Diagonal corner creases on the front cover and first pages. Age-spotting affecting the front cover and outer page edges. Interior is untanned, clean, with minor pencil markings in text (sparse annotations on one page, sparse underlining on one page, a short vertical line in the margins of two pages), some underlining in pen on one page (contents have been carefully inspected). A long vertical crease on spine; good secure binding. -- This monograph is concerned with the analysis and description of five grammatical structures against the background of their use in written texts. The constructions referred to are placed in two different functional categories - focussing structures, i.e. focussing it (it clefts) and wh- sentences (wh- clefts), and defocussing syntagms, i.e. inversion, there sentences and extrapositional it sentences. The monograph attempts to describe these constructions grammatically and lexically, as well as to specify their function and use in discourse. -- Contents: 1 Introduction [Subject-matter to be investigated; Focus(sing) and defocussing; Functional differences (Theme (/ rheme); Topic; Information: given/ new; Constituent weight)] 2 English sentence [Nominal group (Nominal pre- & post-modification); Verbal group (Verb modification); Adverbial group] 3 Defocussing syntagms [Inversion (Types of inversion: - Sentence-type inversion - Inversion of clause elements - Predicator inversion); There sentences (Form there; Concord in there sentences; Verbal group; Post-positioned nominal group; Uses of there sentences); Extrapositional it sentences (Grammatical analysis; Analyses of the extr. it sentence; Uses of the extr. it sentence)] 4 Focussing syntagms [Focussing it sentences (Grammatical analysis: - Complete sentence - Pre-clause - Post-clause; Focussability of constituents: - Nominal groups - Adverbial groups - Multiple focussing - Ascriptive foe. it sentences; Analyses of foe. it sentences: - Formal grammar - Logical semantics - Functional grammar - Psycholinguistics; Uses of foe. it sentences); Focussing wh- sentences (Grammatical analysis: - Complete sentence - Pre-clause - Be form - Post-constituent; Focussability of constituents: - Nominal groups - Predicatives - Verbal groups - Adverbial groups; Analyses of the foe. wh- sentence; Uses of the foe. wh- sentence); Focussing copula sentences (Transposed foe. wh- sentences; Generalizing nominal expressions)] 5 Summary; References; Corpus texts; Index.

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Title: Discourse and Grammar: Focussing and Defocussing in English
Publisher: Max Niemeyer
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3484410043
ISBN 13: 9783484410046
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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