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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 November 2009
      19 March 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511597824
      9780521394758
      9780521033138
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597824
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.376kg, 168 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.26kg, 168 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Studies in English Language
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in English Language
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    Apposition in Contemporary English is a full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analysed.

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    "...the study provides a meticulous documentation of subtypes of apposition, and the corpus-based approach allows for the study of variation..." Language

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