The word and its ways in English : essays on the parts of speech and person /
"Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. In this book, Walter Hirtle presents the word as the smallest element of meaning in the brain. He also explores how thoughts in the mind of a speaker become a succession of spoken words that get translated back into meaning in the mind...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Language in the mind
- Why the word?
- The word as a closed watch
- Person, space, and parts of speech : exploring with Guillaume
- Person, space, and parts of speech in the noun phrase
- Case as a grammatical category in modern English
- Person in the substantive and the verb
- The personal pronouns in English and the representation of ordinal person.
