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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- Leipzig Glossing Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why This Study? -- 1.2 The Finite/Non-finite Distinction -- 1.3 Purpose of the Study -- 1.4 Research Questions -- 1.5 Methodology -- 1.6 Organization of the Book -- 2 Non-finiteness in the Literature -- 2.1 Non-finiteness in the Early History of English Grammar Writing -- 2.2 Non-finiteness in Traditional Grammar: Morphology-Based -- 2.2.1 The Property of the Verb |
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2.2.2 The Categorization of Non-finite Clauses in English -- 2.2.3 Sentence-Building Power and the Status of Tense -- 2.2.4 Scale of Finiteness -- 2.3 Non-finiteness from the Typological Perspective -- 2.3.1 Category Space and the Continuum Hypothesis -- 2.3.2 Obligatority and Asymmetry -- 2.3.3 Root Infinitives in Children's Early Language -- 2.4 Non-finiteness in Generative Grammar: Form-Based -- 2.4.1 PRO as Subject of Non-finite Clauses -- 2.4.2 Tense and the Finite/Non-finite Distinction -- 2.4.3 Non-isomorphic Relation between Content and Form -- 2.4.4 Gradient or Binary |
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2.5 Non-finiteness in Cognitive Grammar: Meaning-Based -- 2.5.1 Non-finiteness as Atemporal Construal -- 2.5.2 The View of Scalarity -- 2.5.3 Verbal and Finite versus Nominal and Non-finite -- 2.5.4 Conceptual Motivation -- 2.5.5 Non-finite Clauses as Constructions -- 2.6 Non-finiteness in Systemic Functional Grammar: Meaning- and Form-Based -- 2.6.1 General Discussions on Non-finite Clauses -- 2.6.2 Criteria of Non-finite Clause Identification -- 2.6.3 Function-Specified Systems of Non-finite Clauses -- 2.7 Viewpoints from Other Theories and the Semantic Types -- 2.7.1 Semiotic Grammar |
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2.7.2 Role and Reference Grammar -- 2.7.3 Functional Discourse Grammar -- 2.7.4 Other Approaches and the Semantic Types -- 2.8 Some Special Types to Be Noted -- 2.9 A Summary of the Relevant Research -- 3 Theoretical Foundations -- 3.1 Prerequisite: Distinguishing Spoken and Written Language -- 3.1.1 Differences between Spoken and Written Language -- 3.1.2 Grammars for Speech and Writing -- 3.2 Cryptotype and Cline -- 3.3 Metafunctions as Universal Categories -- 3.4 Process as the Basic Semantic Unit -- 3.4.1 Types of Situation and Types of Process -- 3.4.2 Major, Median and Minor Processes |
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3.5 Clause as the Basic Syntactic Unit: Major, Median and Minor -- 3.6 Ideational Grammatical Metaphor -- 3.6.1 A Sketch of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor -- 3.6.2 Nominalization -- 3.6.3 Adjectivization -- 3.6.4 Verbalization -- 3.6.5 Adverbialization -- 3.7 Embedding, Two Principles and Rankshifting -- 3.8 Defining Non-finiteness in Terms of Function -- 4 Basic Process Relations as One Solution to the Controversy -- 4.1 The Basic Construction and Its Functional Components -- 4.2 The Para-relation of Processes -- 4.3 The Hypo-relation of Processes -- 4.4 The Participant Conflated |
| Summary |
Presents a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Finiteness (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Systemic grammar.
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Chinese
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Chinese
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Finiteness (Linguistics)
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Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
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Systemic grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009075659 |
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9781009075657 |
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