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By Eirian C. Davies

ISBN-10: 113891942X

ISBN-13: 9781138919426

ISBN-10: 1138919446

ISBN-13: 9781138919440

First released in 1979, this e-book develops a grammatically oriented semantics (as against a semantically oriented grammar) of temper and situation in English. It seeks to set up correspondences among components of semantic business enterprise (‘planes’) and floor grammar, with no reverting to an intermediate suggestion of deep grammar. The chapters discover themes together with the diversities among ‘literal which means’ and ‘significance’, speech roles, and buildings of and cause when it comes to the 4 panes mentioned past within the volume.

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