Patterns and Development in the English Clause System: A Corpus-Based Grammatical Overview

by Clarence Green

Overview

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and properties of English clause combination have important theoretical and empirical significance. Adopting the cognitive-functional Adaptive Approach to grammar, it offers a series of interconnected studies that investigate how English clause combination interacts with the properties of coherence and cohesion in discourse across historical time, as well in contemporary language use. This work contributes to the ever-increasing common ground between corpus linguistics and cognitive-functional linguistics, producing new paths for interdisciplinary research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811097294
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	06/30/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Clarence Green holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. He is currently a lecturer in Psycholinguistics and Corpus Linguistics at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

Table of Contents

1 Approaches to English Grammar.- 2 Clause combination in English.- 3 Gradience in English Clause Combination.- 4 The English Clause Hierarchy over History.- 5 Historical Development according to Genre and Dialect.- 6 Discourse Coherence and Clause Combination.- 7 Isomorphic Development and English Clause Combination.- 8 General Discussion and Evaluation of the Research.