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→ Травень 7, 2012
Structuralism derived from structural analysis. A language is viewed as a structure of elements each of which has a relation with other element. Structuralism studies their connections. Structural grammatical theories Two main theories dominated in linguistics in the 20th century: 1) structuralism represented by the Prague School that created functional linguistics, the Copenhagen School which [...]
→ Травень 6, 2012
British National Corpus Corpus is a large collection of computer-readable writing. Corpus linguistics is a study of linguistics that includes all processes related to processing, usage of analysis of written and spoken machine-readable corpora. Longman Written American Corpus comprised of 100 million words of American newspaper and book texts: - The Longman Spoken American Corpus [...]
→ Березень 30, 2012
In Modern English the problem of case is reduced to the dispute whether the case category exists as such. Open to thought and questioning, this problem has always been much debated. The solution of the problem depends mainly on grammarians’ interpretation of the term “case”. As we will see below, some scholars consider it to [...]
→ Березень 30, 2012
Noun: Category of case in modern English grammars – Part 1 We have considered the three theories which, if at basically different angles, proceed from the assumption that the English noun docs distinguish the grammatical case in its functional structure. However, another view of the problem of the English noun cases has been put forward [...]