The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms which behave like adjectives, but actually are adjectives, linked with verbs via derivation. It argues that observed differences between participles and adjectives, which in the past have prompted linguists to draw a category distinction between them, are in reality due to the non-prototypical semantics of participles - a feature also found in other types of adjectives, with strikingly identical effects. This analysi The Many Faces of English -ing - Xin Sennrich od authora Xin Sennrich a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Xin Sennrich |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
212 |
| Rok vydání |
2022 |
| Nakladatelství |
De Gruyter |
