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The Welsh answering system / by Bob Morris Jones.
Record details
- ISBN: 9783110800593
- ISBN: 3110800594
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages)
- Publisher: Berlin ; Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-349) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Answering systems -- 1.1 Semantics -- 1.2 Forms -- 1.3 An overview of Welsh responsives -- 2 Welsh echo responsives -- 2.1 Perfect responsives: tense and aspect -- 2.2 Full echo and substitute responsives: types of finite verbs -- 2.3 Agreement features: person deixis -- 2.4 Agreement features: number -- 2.5 Forms of bod �be� -- 2.6 More about negative forms -- 2.7 Summary -- 3 Welsh echo and nonecho responsives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Discourse sources -- 3.3 Syntactic form 3.4 Logical form3.5 Summary -- 4 Discourse functions of Welsh responsives -- 4.1 Answers -- 4.2 Agreements and disagreements -- 4.3 Response questions -- 4.4 Acknowledgements -- 4.5 Corrections -- 4.6 Polarity of responsives -- 5 A formal analysis of Welsh responsives -- 5.1 VPless elliptical sentences -- 5.2 Responsives and VPless elliptical sentences -- 5.3 A generalized analysis -- 6 Children�s use of Welsh responsives -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Echo responsives -- 6.3 Nonecho responsives -- 6.4 Nonecho or echo responsives 6.5 Forms of verbal responsives: positive and negative6.6 Summary -- 7 Language contact: the influence of English -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Language background -- 7.3 Conclusions -- 8 Internal causes of variation -- 8.1 Isomorphism -- 8.2 Discourse -- 8.3 Semantics -- 8.4 Overall summary and conclusions -- Appendix I. Conventions in the corpus examples -- Appendix II. Conventions in the interlinear glosses -- Appendix III. Additional examples of responsives -- Appendix IV. Examples of formal answering systems -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
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| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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