This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses.
Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes.
The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules and howing how these modules combine to express certain meanings and how complement forms are related to them and their combinations.
| ISBN: | 9789027228802 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1986 |
| Author: | Evelyn N Ransom |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Typological Studies in Language |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements.
Complementation features in the following genres: Linguistics
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Complementation was written by Evelyn N Ransom and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Complementation has 238 pages
Yes it is part of Typological Studies in Language series