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Studies in English Language
Apposition in Contemporary English
Apposition in Contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analyzed.
168 pages, Hardcover
First published March 19, 1992
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February 12, 2019
If you want to increase the number of sentence structures you can use in your writing, this is a great book to read. I didn’t realize how many differeny types of appositions there are, eight to be precise (that was an example of an apposition). This is a fairly analytical book, yet it provides sentence examples throughout that exemplify the various kinds of apposition discussed.
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