Modern English syntax and semantics

Author: Wu Guoliang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: With the continuous deepening of linguistic and semantic research, people are increasingly realizing that many grammatical structures have a certain semantic background. Many issues that could not be explained in traditional English now have new answers; for some structures, people can even have new perspectives at a deeper level. Based on the materials from large-scale computer corpora abroad, this book analyzes and abstracts the usage of six different English styles in countries like the UK and the US. Combining the author's research topics abroad, it discusses and explores various aspects of modern English from a linguistic perspective, such as the usage characteristics of THAT clauses, the potential rules of subject raising, the theoretical basis for TOBE ellipsis, the semantic classification of adjectives, the intrinsic properties of FORTO structures, the application context of stylistic inversion sentences, and the constraints of double ING structures. Originally written in English, this book was systematically taught during lectures at universities abroad and received full support from linguistic experts such as Dr. Koch from Harvard University in the United States.