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The Clause in English : In honour of Rodney Huddleston
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ISBN: 1556199317 902723048X 9781556199318 9789027230485 9789027298775 9027298777 1282163000 9786612163005 Year: 1999 Volume: 45 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of 'minor' or 'fringe' constructions, including 'deictic-presentationals'; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; 'isolated if-clauses', and 'exceptional clauses'. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between par

Towards a contextual grammar of English : the clause and its place in the definition of sentence
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ISBN: 0044250274 0044250282 9780044250289 9780044250272 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Boston Sydney : Allen & Unwin,


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On the surface of discourse
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ISBN: 0044150024 0044150032 9780044150039 9780044150022 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Allen and Unwin

Purpose clauses : syntax, thematics, and semantics of English purpose constructions
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ISBN: 079231400X 9401055378 9401134782 Year: 1991 Volume: 47 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer Academic

Adverb licensing and clause structure in English
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ISBN: 9789027233691 9027233691 9786612155024 1282155024 9027292906 Year: 2007 Volume: 105 105 Publisher: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

Problems in form and function
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ISBN: 089391116X 9780893911164 Year: 1984 Publisher: Norwood Ablex

Prepositions and complement clauses : a syntactic and semantic study of verbs governing prepositions and complement clauses in present-day English.
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ISBN: 0791428745 9780791428740 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

Rethinking the coordinate-subordinate dichotomy : interpersonal grammar and the analysis of adverbial clauses in English
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ISBN: 9783110199505 3110199505 3110918196 Year: 2007 Volume: 55 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,

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This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be subdivided into four distinct construction types. The constructions are defined on the basis of differences in their 'interpersonal' structure, i.e. the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction. It is shown that the four types constitute syntactically, semantically and pragmatically coherent categories, with differences in interpersonal structure defining and motivating distinct syntactic behaviour, distinct pragmatic functions and distinct semantic classes of clause linkage. The validity of the analysis is demonstrated in three ways. First, it is shown that the analysis can make sense of the wide range of apparently conflicting criteria found in the literature on complex sentences, which can now be explained as reflections of four different construction types rather than as alternative perspectives on one single contrast between coordination and subordination. Second, it is shown how the analysis can deal with two specific problems in the more general area of clause combining, viz. the syntactic basis of the distinction between 'content', 'epistemic' and 'speech act' levels of clause linkage, and the distinct discursive functions associated with initial and final position of adverbial clauses. Finally, it is also shown that the proposed analysis is useful beyond the analysis of English, with parallels in a number of cross-linguistically recurrent phenomena of clause linkage. The book is mainly of interest to linguistics researchers in the areas of syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well as to graduate students with a focus on these fields.


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Infinitival complement clauses in English : a study of syntax in discourse
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ISBN: 0521370353 9780521370356 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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