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2nd ed., revised and enlarget

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

xvi, 543 s. ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-19-924740-0 (brož.)

Oxford textbooks in linguistics

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List of tables xii // How to read this book xiii // Preface xiv // List of abbreviations xvii // Part A Introduction 1 // 1. Orientation 3 // 1.1. Grammar and semantics 5 // 1.2. Semantic types and grammatical word classes 7 // 1.3. Semantic roles and syntactic relations 9 // 1.4. The approach followed 12 // 1.5. Words and clitics 16 // Notes to Chapter 1 18 // 2. Grammatical sketch 19 // 2.1. Pronouns 19 // 2.2. Verb and verb phrase 22 // 2.2.1. Forms of the verb 22 // 2.2.2. Verb phrase 24 // 2.2.3. Verbal systems 25 // 2.3. Noun phrase 26 // 2.4. Main clauses 27 // 2.4.1. Imperative clauses 29 // 2.5. Adverbial elements 30 // 2.6. Relative clauses 32 // 2.7. Complement clauses 36 // 2.8. Omission of be 53 // 2.9. Types of -ing clause 54 // 2.10. Word derivations 56 // 2.11. Clause derivations 58 // 2.11.1. Questions 58 // 2.11.2. Causatives 59 // 2.11.3. Passives 61 // 2.11.4. Promotion to subject 61 // 2.11.5. Reflexives 62 // 2.11.6. Reciprocals 65 // 2.11.7. HAVE A VERB, GIVE A VERB and TAKE A VERB 66 // 2.12. Clause linking 67 // 2.13. Syntactic preferences and constraints 71 // 2.14. Summary of omission conventions 74 // Notes to Chapter 2 77 // Part B The Semantic Types 79 // 3. Noun, adjective and verb types 81 // 3.1. Types associated with the Noun class 82 // 3.2. Types associated with the Adjective class 84 // 3.2.1. Comparison of adjectives 91 // 3.3. Introduction to verb types 93 // 3.3.1. Subject and object 93 // 3.3.2. Grammar versus lexicon 95 // 3.4. Primary and Secondary verbs 96 // 4. Primary-A verb types 102 // 4.1. motion and rest 102 // 4.2. AFFECT 110 // 4.3. Giving 119 // 4.4. corporeal 124 // 4.5. WEATHER 127 // 4.6. Others 128 // Notes to Chapter 4 130 // 5. Primary-B verb types 131 // 5.1. ATTENTION 131 // 5.2. thinking 139 // 5.3. DECIDING 143 // 5.4. SPEAKING 146 // 5.5. LIKING 160 // 5.6. ANNOYING 164 // 5.7. Others 169 //

6. Secondary verb types 172 // 6.1. Secondary-A types 172 // 6.1.1. MODALS and SEMI-MODALS 172 // 6.1.2. BEGINNING 177 // 6.1.3. TRYING 183 // 6.1.4. HURRYING 186 // 6.1.5. DARING 187 // 6.2. Secondary-8 types 188 // 6.2.1. WANTING 188 // 6.2.2. Postponing 195 // 6.3. Secondary-C types 196 // 6.3.1. MAKING 196 // 6.3.2. HELPING 201 // 6.4. Secondary-D types 202 // 6.4.1. seem 203 // 6.4.2. matter 205 // Notes to Chapter 6 206 // Part C Some Grammatical Topics 207 // 7. She is departing for the jungle tomorrow, although the doctor has been advising against it // Tense and aspect 209 // 7.1. Basic distinctions 210 // 7.2. Generic 211 // 7.3. Future 212 // 7.4. Present and past systems 215 // 7.4.1. Perfective verus imperfective 215 // 7.4.2. Actual versus previous 217 // 7.4.3. Present versus past 219 // 7.5. Irrealis and aspect 222 // 7.6. Back-shifting 223 // 7.7. Occurrence 225 // Notes to Chapter 7 229 // 8. I know that it seems that he’ll make me want to describe her starting to say that she knows that it seems that ... // Complement clauses 230 // 8.1. Parentheticals 233 // V111 CONTENTS // 8.2. Meanings of complement clauses 238 // 8.2.1. that and WK- 238 // 8.2.2. that and ING 240 // 8.2.3. Modal (for) to, judgement to, and that 242 // 8.2.4. The role of for in Modal (for) to complements 247 // 8.2.5. Omitting to from Modal (for) to complements 251 // 8.2.6. Omitting to be from to complements 253 // 8.2.7. ING and Modal (for) to 255 // 8.2.8. WH-TO 255 // 8.2.9. (from) Ing 257 // 8.2.10. Summary 258 // 8.3. Complement clauses with Secondary verbs 260 // 8.3.1. modals and semi-modals 260 // 8.3.2. BEGINNING, TRYING, HURRYING and DARING 261 // 8.3.3. wanting and postponing 264 // 8.3.4. making and helping 268 // 8.3.5. seem and matter 269 // 8.4. Complement clauses with Primary-B verbs, // and with adjectives 270 // 8.4.1. Attention 270 //

8.4.2. thinking 272 // 8.4.3. deciding 274 // 8.4.4. speaking 275 // 8.4.5. liking, annoying and adjectives 279 // 8.4.6. Other Primary-B types 283 // Notes to Chapter 8 285 // 9. / kicked at the bomb, which exploded, and wakened you up // Transitivity and causatives 286 // 9.1. The semantic basis of syntactic relations 287 // 9.2. Prepositions and transitivity 289 // 9.2.1. Verbs with an inherent preposition 290 // 9.2.2. Phrasal verbs 293 // 9.2.3. Inserting a preposition 297 // 9.2.4. Omitting a preposition before non-measure phrases 299 // 9.2.5. Omitting a preposition before measure phrases 303 // 9.3. Dual transitivity 305 // 9.3.1. S = A: transitive verbs that can omit an object 305 // 9.3.2. S = O pairs: which is basic? 309 // 9.3.3. Causatives 311 // Notes to Chapter 9 315 // 10. Our manager’s annoyance at thoughts of residence rearrangement bears no relation to his assistant’s criticism of building restrictions // Nominalisations and possession 317 // 10.1. Possession 317 // 10.2. Varieties of deverbal nominalisation 322 // 10.2.1. Nominalisations denoting unit of activity // and activity itself 323 // 10.2.2. Nominalisations denoting a state or a property 327 // 10.2.3. Nominalisations describing a result 328 // 10.2.4. Object nominalisations 329 // 10.2.5. Locus nominalisations 332 // 10.2.6. Agentive nominalisations 333 // 10.2.7. Instrumental nominalisations 336 // 10.2.8. Possession of a nominalisation: summary 337 // 10.3. Derivational processes 338 // 10.4. Nominalisation of phrasal verbs 343 // 10.4.1. Agentive nominalisations 344 // 10.4.2. Unit and activity nominalisations 346 // 10.5. Nominalisation by semantic type 348 // 10.5.1. Primary-A types 348 // 10.5.2. Primary-8 types 349 // 10.5.3. Secondary verbs 351 // Notes to Chapter 10 352 // 11. The plate, which had been eaten off, was owned by my aunt // Passives 353 //

11.1. The nature of passive 354 // 11.2. Which verbs from Primary types may passivise 360 // 11.3. How verbs from Secondary types passivise 364 // 11.4. Complement clauses as passive subjects 367 // 11.5. Prepositional NPs becoming passive subjects 369 // Notes to Chapter 11 374 // 12. Yesterday, even the rather clever bishops could not very easily have // sensibly organised a moderately unusual exorcism here // Adverbs and negation 375 // 12.1. Adverbs 376 // 12.2. Forms and types 379 // 12.2.1. Adjective types and derived adverbs 381 // 12.3. Positioning 385 // 12.3.1. Position ... and other medial positions 389 // 12.3.2. Positions’F’and zO’ 392 // 12.4. Adverbs modifying NPs 394 // 12.5. Adverbs with sentential but not manner function 402 // 12.5.1. Time adverbs 405 // 12.5.2. Spatial adverbs 410 // 12.6. Adverbs with manner but not sentential function 413 // 12.7. Adverbs with both sentential and manner function 418 // 12.8. Adverbs modifying adjectives and adverbs 422 // 12.9. Other properties 423 // 12.9.1. Comparatives 423 // 12.9.2. An adverb as a complete utterance 426 // 12.10. Combinations of adverbs 427 // 12.11. // Negation 432 // 12.11.1. Sentential and manner-type negation 432 // 12.11.2. Negative attraction 435 // 12.11.3. Constituent negation 436 // 12.11.4. Inherently negative verbs 441 // 12.11.5. Negation and sentential adverbs 441 // 12.11.6. Complex negators 443 // 12.11.7. Negative modifier to a noun 444 // Notes to Chapter 12 445 // 1 3. What sells slowly, but wears well? // Promotion to subject 446 // 13.1. General characteristics 446 // 13.2. The circumstances in which promotion is possible 449 // 13.3. Which roles may be promoted 451 // Notes to Chapter 13 458 // 14. She gave him a look, they both had a laugh and then took a stroll // GIVE A VERB, HAVE A VERB and TAKE A VERB constructions 459 // 14.1. Criteria adopted 462 //

14.2. Syntax 467 // 14.3. Meaning 469 // 14.4. Occurrence 476 // Notes to Chapter 14 483 // Appendix: List of adjective and verb types, with // sample members 484 // References 492 // Books by R. M. W. Dixon 501 // Index 503