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The English Gerund-participle

A Comparison with the Infinitive

By: Patrick J. Duffley

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The English Gerund-participle

A Comparison with the Infinitive

By: Patrick J. Duffley

Original Scholarly Monograph

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Peter Lang

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ISBN 10

082046399X

ISBN 13

9780820463995

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

By: Patrick Duffley

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Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

By: Patrick Duffley

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013)’s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix subject, the semantic relation between matrix and complement, and a number of other factors. The conclusions call for a reconsideration of Ariel (2010)’s distinction in Defining Pragmatics between semantics and pragmatics on the basis of cancelability: many control readings are not cancelable although they are pragmatically inferred. It is proposed that the line be drawn rather between what is linguistically expressed and what is not linguistically expressed but still communicated.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027269475

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9789027269478

The English Infinitive

By: Patrick Joseph Duffley

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The English Infinitive

By: Patrick Joseph Duffley

This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative. The texts are ideal for the scholar, the teacher, and the student, but especially for English speaking students in overseas universities where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in foreign universities. Although English is probably the most studied language in the world, this is one of the first systematic comparisons of infinitives with and without the use of "to". Patrick Duffley examines these uses adopting the semantic approach, which shows that the two infinitive forms each have a basic meaning which is capable of explaining all of their particular uses. The author has carried out detailed research for this book, examining over 24,000 occurences of the infinitive, as well as taking into account the observations of previous grammarians. The book challenges old assumptions that grammar is independent of meaning and should be dealt with in purely formal terms. It also fulfils a need for literature on an area of English grammar which has sometimes been presumed to be chaotic and unsystematic. The text is aimed specialists in linguistics and advanced students of English as a second language.

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Routledge

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1315504642

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9781315504643

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The English Gerund-participle

The English Gerund-participle

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

The English Infinitive

The English Infinitive

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