The Philosophy of Grammar

Jespersen, Otto

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“…As I pointed out to the reader above, many English common nouns which satisfy both the criteria for mass nouns and the criteria for count nouns exhibit a clear difference in construal correlated with the criteria the word satisfies, as noted by Jespersen (1924 pp. 198–200).…”

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Gillon

2012

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“…The following are the well known distributional properties of mass nouns and count nouns in English. (See Jespersen 1924 pp. 198–200, where the distinction between the two kinds of nouns is made, and Bloomfield 1933 pp.…”

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Gillon

2012

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“…Jespersen (1924) was the first to make a general distinction between "formulas" and "free expressions" which "pervades all parts of grammar." Bloomfield (1933) observed that "many forms lie on the border-line between bound forms and words, or between words and phrases" (p. 181).…”

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A Study on the Use of Lexical Chunks by Chinese EFL Learners in Writing

Shi¹,

Wang²

2015

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. AbstractLexical Approach put forward by Michael Lewis (1993) is widely acknowledged in EFL teaching and lexical teaching is very important development in the evolution of language teaching (Lowe, 2003). For about thirty years of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in China, more and more teachers have realized the importance of teaching and encouraging learners to use ready-made lexical chunks. However, the present study focuses on the overuse of lexical chunks in learners' writings in a high stake national test (College English Test Band 6 -CET6). The corpus-based data analysis will be done to find the most commonly used lexical chunks by Chinese EFL learners and demonstrate what is meant to be the overuse of lexical chunks. Furthermore, the reasons for misuse and overuse of lexical chunks will be discussed. The findings drawn from structural and functional analysis of lexical chunks also have some pedagogical implications.

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“…Cependant, les études qui portent sur le même sujet dans la langue française ont plutôt tendance à se concentrer sur 10. À noter deux exceptions dans la tradition anglo-saxonne : Jespersen (1924) et Persson (1989, qui tous les deux préfèrent une définition sémantique des noms collectifs, et qui admettent dans cette catégorie des entités inanimées. les caractéristiques sémantiques de ces expressions (voir entre autres Flaux 1998Flaux , 1999Flaux , 2001Lammert 2010 ;Lecolle 1998 ;Michaux 1992 ;Vilagines-Serra 2002).…”

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L’accord sujet-verbe en français contemporain

Tristram

2015

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This article presents an analysis of synchronic variation and diachronic change in verbal agreement with the French noun foule. This noun, like many collective nouns in French and other languages, can show variation between singular and plural verbal agreement (la foule des habitants exulte SING de joie dans les rues vs. une foule de gens pressés s'attardent PLU ). A novel combination of data, including data from sociolinguistic interviews, a gap-fill exercise, and a corpus of written French, is used to investigate this variation and change, to elucidate some of the factors that play a role in this type of agreement, and to examine the differences between this form used with the definite and indefinite determiner (la foule vs. une foule). Some theoretical issues concerning the definition of collective nouns are also addressed.

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The Philosophy of Grammar

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