The word and its ways in English : essays on the parts of speech and person / Walter Hirtle.
The word and its ways in English : essays on the parts of speech and person / Walter Hirtle.
The word and its ways in English : essays on the parts of speech and person / Walter Hirtle.
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Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/3382
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English
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viii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Language in the mind -- Why the word? -- The word as a closed watch -- Person, space, and parts of speech : exploring with Guillaume -- Person, space, and parts of speech in the noun phrase -- Case as a grammatical category in modern English -- Person in the substantive and the verb -- The personal...
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Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
Québec (Province)
Date Published
[2017]
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"Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. In this book, Walter Hirtle presents the word as the smallest element of meaning in the brain. He also explores how thoughts in the mind of a speaker become a succession of spoken words that get translated back into meaning in the mind of a listener. Inspired by the work of the French ling...
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The word and its ways in English : essays on the parts of speech and person / Walter Hirtle.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/3382
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74VKVXZxRooX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVXZxRooX
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9780773549654 hardcover
077354965X hardcover
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425.92
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991024113815702626
