Style, Symbolic Language Structure and Syntactic Change: Intransitivity and the Perception of Is in English

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Style, Symbolic Language Structure and Syntactic Change

Intransitivity and the Perception of Is in English

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1976

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
PREFACE Naomi S. Baron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	7
I. Contextuality, Social Reality, and Language Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
II. Structural Significations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	14
III. Intransitivity and Criteria for Complementation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
IV. Shifting Roles of Being and Having in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
V. The Real and the Actual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
VI. Be and Have: Constant Functions, Changing Forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
VII. Intransitivity in Retrospect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
VIII. Semantic Particles and the 'Burden of Existence' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
IX. Be and Have Differentiation as Language Universal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
X. Intransitivity and 'Clock-Stopping' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50

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October 26, 2020

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9783112330289

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December 31, 1976

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112330272

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Reprint 2020

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51

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112330289

eBook ISBN: 9783112330289

Hardcover ISBN: 9783112330272

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Sprachwissenschaft; Englisch

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