Peter Siemund

Broschiertes Buch

Speech Acts and Clause Types

English in a Cross-Linguistic Context

Beschreibung

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. It draws on insights from linguistics, philosophy, and sociology, and may be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax.

Autor

Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg since 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, and language contact. His many publications include, as author, Pronominal Gender in English: A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2008) and Varieties of English: A Typological Approach (CUP 2013), and, as editor, Linguistic Universals and Language Variation (Mouton de Gruyter 2011) and Foreign Language Learning in Multilingual Classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet; John Benjamins 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198718147
• ISBN-10: 0198718144
• Artikelnr.: 49086548