Premodifiers in English Their Structure and Significance Studies in English Language 1st Edition by Jim Feist ISBN 113950102X 9781139501026

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ISBN 10: 113950102X

ISBN 13: 9781139501026 

Author:  Jim Feist 

The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say ‘the actual red ball’, but not ‘the red actual ball’? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both ‘German and English speakers’ and ‘English and German speakers’? Why do some premodifiers change the meaning of a phrase in some contexts; for example ‘young man’, can mean ‘boyfriend’, rather than ‘man who is young’? Drawing on a corpus of over 4,000 examples of English premodifiers from a range of genres such as advertising, fiction and scientific texts, and across several varieties of English, this book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.

Table of contents:

1. Zones and Types of Order

2. Semantic Explanation of Unmarked Order Across the Zones

3. Syntactic Explanation of Unmarked Order Across the Zones

4. Unmarked Order Within the Classifier Zone

5. Free Order

6. Marked Order

7. Historical Explanation of Premodifier Order

8. Supporting Explanations of Premodifier Order

9. Discussion

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