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BL
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863070
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Vergaro, Carla
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| Title & Author
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Illocutionary shell nouns in English /\ Carla Vergaro.
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| Publication Statement
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Bern :: Peter Lang AG,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Linguistic insights,; volume 244
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1 online resource (303 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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3034330707
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: 9783034330701
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3034330693
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9783034330695
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aim of the study; 1.2 Shell nouns; 1.3 Illocutionary shell nouns; 1.4 Theoretical assumptions; 1.4.1 Conceptual content and construal; 1.4.2 Prototypical conception of categorial structure; 1.5 Conclusion and outlook; Chapter 2. Data and methodology; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Procedure; 2.2.1 Semantic analysis; 2.2.2 Grammatical analysis; Chapter 3. Assertive shell nouns; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Data and methodology; 3.3 Analysis and results; 3.3.1 Semantic analysis; 3.3.1.1 Defending and true-for-the-sake-of-the-argument assertions
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3.3.1.2 Public, future-directed, appeasing and implicit assertions3.3.1.3 Aggressive, reactive and evaluative assertions; 3.3.1.4 Weak assertions; 3.3.1.5 False assertions; 3.3.2 Grammatical analysis; 3.3.2.1 Uses in shell-noun function; 3.3.2.2 Overview of constructional patterns; 3.3.2.3 Major patterns; 3.3.2.3.1 N-that; 3.3.2.3.2. Pro-BE-N; 3.3.2.3.3 N-BE-that; 3.3.2.3.4 Existential Construction; 3.3.2.4 Minor patterns; 3.4 Discussion; Chapter 4. Commissive shell nouns; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Data and methodology; 4.3 Analysis and results; 4.3.1 Semantic analysis; 4.3.2 Grammatical analysis
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4.3.2.1 Uses in shell-noun function4.3.2.2 Overview of constructional patterns; 4.3.2.3 Major patterns; 4.3.2.4 Minor patterns; 4.4 Discussion; Chapter 5. Directive shell nouns; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Data and methodology; 5.3 Analysis and results; 5.3.1 Semantic analysis; 5.3.2 Grammatical analysis; 5.3.2.1 Uses in shell-noun function; 5.3.2.2 Overview of constructional patterns; 5.3.2.3 Major patterns; 5.3.2.4 Minor patterns; 5.4 Discussion; Chapter 6. Expressive shell nouns; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Data and methodology; 6.3 Analysis and results; 6.3.1 Semantic analysis
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6.3.2 Grammatical analysis6.3.2.1 Uses in shell-noun function; 6.3.2.2 Overview of constructional patterns; 6.3.2.3 Major patterns; 6.3.2.4 Minor patterns; 6.4 Discussion; Chapter 7. Declarative shell nouns; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Data and methodology; 7.3 Analysis and results; 7.3.1 Semantic analysis; 7.3.2 Grammatical analysis; 7.4 Discussion; Chapter 8. Discussion and Conclusion; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Conspectus; 8.2.1 Use in shell-noun function; 8.2.2 Distribution of patterns; 8.3 General discussion; 8.4 Conclusion; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Index of illocutionary shell nouns
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| Abstract
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"The volume deals with the topic of illocutionary shell nouns in English, i.e. nouns that encapsulate a content that is usually expressed in a complement or in a separate sentence or clause, and report or characterize it as a specific speech act. The book reports a usage-based study of the complementation patterns in a corpus of 335 illocutionary nouns distributed across the five Searlean classes of assertive, commissive, directive, expressive, and declarative nouns. The investigation aims to verify the association between the meaning of these nouns and their complementation patterns, and between their semantic similarity and the similarity in the distribution of complementation patterns"--Back cover.
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English language-- Noun.
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English language-- Noun.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Grammar Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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| Dewey Classification
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425/.54
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| LC Classification
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PE1205.V47 2018eb
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