Focus, Coherence and Emphasis (Hardcover)

First published in 1984, this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance - whose solutions have implications for linguistic theory in general. In particular, the form of grammatical statements, the relationship between various rules of grammar, the interaction between sentence in a sequence, and the inferences to be drawn from linguistic behaviour to linguistic knowledge. The author argues that many grammatical processes, inadequately handled by conventional sentence-grammars, require a text grammar in which the basic constitutive processes of information and deixis can be specified. They ago further to investigate the novel hypothesis that emphatic structure provides a crucial condition for the application of transformational rules, paying particular attention to the 'movement-rules' using mostly data culled from actual usage.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	RLE: Discourse Analysis
Release date:	November 2016
Editors:	Paul Werth
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-22461-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	1-138-22461-8
Barcode:	9781138224612

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