Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ranger, Graham

Titel

Laurel J. Brinton, The Comment Clause in English. Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development

Ist Teil von

• Lexis, 2011

Ort / Verlag

Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Laurel Brinton’s The Comment Clause in English is, as the cover notes tell us, “the first full-length diachronic treatment […] focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms”. The book runs to some 280 pages, comprising eleven evenly balanced chapters, an extremely complete seventeen-page bibliography and a helpful author and subject index. The book is organized into eleven chapters. Chapter One defines comment clauses relativ...