Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English

by Carla Vergaro

Overview

Based on an empirical study of a corpus of 335 English illocutionary shell nouns, the book investigates the issue of semantic compatibility between the meaning of these nouns and their complementation patterns, and between their semantic similarity and the similarity in the distribution of complementation patterns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034330695
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/30/2018
Series:	Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication , #244
Edition description:	New
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carla Vergaro is Associate Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Perugia, Italy. Her main research interests lie in pragmatic linguistics, literary pragmatics, text and discourse analysis, cognitive semantics, and applied linguistics.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Data and methodology – Assertive shell nouns – Commissive shell nouns – Directive shell nouns – Expressive shell nouns – Declarative shell nouns – Discussion and conclusion – References – Appendix 1 –Appendix 2 – Index of illocutionary shell nouns – Index of subjects