10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREMODIFICATION»
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premodification in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Introduction to English Syntax
(primary) ordinals: first, second, third, ... general ordinals: other, another, last, next
quantifiers: many, much, several, few, little 4.2.2 Premodification The
premodification of the noun phrase can be defined very easily as those elements
that come ...
2
Linguistic Perspectives from the Classroom: Language ...
Nominal groups usually carry over the lexical density of texts, since they pack
information within their possibly extended structure of premodification-head-
postmodification or qualifier (Halliday 1994:351). This potential meaning
expression of ...
3
Structural and Functional Properties of Collocations in ...
both comprise a subgroup which obligatorily requires premodification in at least
one of their senses due to semantic and pragmatic reasons. While the
obligatoriness of the premodification itself is pragmatically constrained, the
selection of ...
4
English as an Additional Language in Research Publication ...
Syntactico-rhetorical patterns Density in premodification structures tends to be
founded on implicit formal-functional, highly specific and potentially ambiguous
relation-ships for the lay reader (see also Quiroz 2005). As several linguists ...
Sally Burgess, Pedro Martín-Martín, 2008
5
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
In Figure 2, the percentages for premodification include NPs with premodification
only or in combination with postmodification; the figures for postmodification
include NPs with postmodification only or in combination with premodification.
Christian Mair, Marianne Hundt, International Computer Archive of Modern English, 2000
6
Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
We wanted to check whether in fact it made a difference where the length of the
possessor was located, before or after the head. Since for 26% of datapoints
there was no premodification and for as many as 93% there was no
postmodification ...
Kersti Börjars, David Denison, Alan Scott, 2013
7
Lexical Change in Present-day English: A Corpus-based Study ...
Ekkehard Konig pointed out that German premodification is always derived from
a relative clause, with its relative pronoun and its auxiliary verb being omitted.
This, however, does not hold for the English language. Since in English the word
...
8
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
See also modification; modifier; post-head adjunct; postmodification.
premodification The phenomenon of a dependent *phrase, *clause, etc.
restricting the meaning of a following *head word through *modification, e.g. by
ascribing a property ...
Bas Aarts, Sylvia Chalker, Edmund Weiner, 2014
9
Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English
More important perhaps than restrictions on determiner use are the
premodification patterns attested for SN-constructions. Premodification patterns
include the potential premodification of both the SN and N2. These patterns have
to be ...
10
Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English: An ...
Figure 2-1: Adjectival premodification zones and sequences according to Quirk et
al. (1 985) and Huddleston and Pullum (2002). 15 Huddleston and Pullum (2002:
452) modify as well as extend Quirk et al.'s (1985) adjectival premodification ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREMODIFICATION»
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A Brief History Of The Iconic Vehicles In Harold Ramis Films
In the end, the backup was used solely for early 'premodification' scenes. A bright-colored vehicle was used, producers say, because most of ... «Jalopnik, Feb 14»
