On Comparisons in a National Grammar  

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Mitchell, Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 1 (Mar. 1990), page 53-72.
Fulltext: Vol 11, 1, p 52-72.pdf (1.12MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/11 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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In the context of designing a communicative-pedagogical description of English oriented towards the needs of the syllabus designer and materials writer, this article re-examines the semantics and syntax of English comparative structures, which, it is argued, traditional reference grammars have presented in a misleading light. In particular, the paper challenges the common assumption (which can be traced back to the work of Jespersen) that the as . . . (as) construction serves to express a notion of 'equality'. An alternative analysis is proposed, based on the identification of the semantic relation that holds between -er (than) and as . . . (as) constructions as one of 'inverseness'.

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