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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

By Rochelle (University of New Hampshire) Lieber

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Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they can express are very different from what has been claimed in past theoretical treatments, and therefore that previous treatments cannot be correct. Lieber argues that the relationship between form and meaning in the nominalization processes of English is virtually neve...Show more

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9781107161375

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Cambridge University Press

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2016

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

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Hardcover

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