12. Valency theory and case grammar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XIII
4. The English language and linguistics
5. 1. Facts about English 1
6. 2. Principles of modern linguistics 12
7. 3. Language, intuition and corpora 27
8. Sounds
9. 4. The sounds of English: phonetics 43
10. 5. Phonology 56
11. 6. Phonetic “reality” 67
12. 7. Contrastive aspects of phonetics and phonology 76
13. Meaning-carrying units
14. 8. Morphology 83
15. 9. Word formation 95
16. 10. Phraseology 125
17. Sentences – models of grammar
18. 11. Syntax: traditional grammar 141
19. 12. Valency theory and case grammar 171
20. 13. Theories of grammar and language acquisition 200
21. Meaning
22. 14. Semantics: meaning, reference and denotation 220
23. 15. Meaning relations 233
24. 16. Ways of describing meaning 247
25. Utterances
26. 17. Pragmatics 265
27. 18. Texts 283
28. Variation
29. 19. Variation in language 302
30. 20. Linguistic change 315
31. Backmatter 330