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.
ISBN: | 9781138224650 |
Publication date: | 17th May 2018 |
Author: | Paul Werth |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 308 pages |
Series: | RLE: Discourse Analysis |
Genres: |
Language: reference and general Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation Linguistics Sociolinguistics Grammar, syntax and morphology Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Grammar, syntax and morphology Linguistics |