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Direct linkVergaro, Carla – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal or conditional clauses. The term…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Traditional Grammar, Pragmatics
Geach, Peter – Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: English, Logic, Syntax, Traditional Grammar
Lieberman, Marcia R. – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, English, Linguistic Theory, Poetry
Download full textLegum, Stanley E. – 1972
The class of English words traditionally called adverbs is examined and redefined in this paper. The following three subclasses of adverbs are identified: limiters, which are words that modify noun phrases; intensifiers, which are words that modify adjectives; and "true" adverbs, which modify verb phrases and sentences. Examples of these…
Descriptors: Adverbs, English, Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedMolina, Hubert – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Long, Ralph B. – Coll Engl, 1970
Version of a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, NOvember 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)
Descriptors: English, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
