Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English
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Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English

About this book

The volume deals with the topic of illocutionary shell nouns in English, i.e. nouns that encapsulate a content that is usually expressed in a complement or in a separate sentence or clause, and report or characterize it as a specific speech act. The book reports a usage-based study of the complementation patterns in a corpus of 335 illocutionary nouns distributed across the five Searlean classes of assertive, commissive, directive, expressive, and declarative nouns. The investigation aims to verify the association between the meaning of these nouns and their complementation patterns, and between their semantic similarity and the similarity in the distribution of complementation patterns.

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Yes, you can access Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English by Carla Vergaro in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & German Language. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
  5. Chapter 2. Data and methodology
  6. Chapter 3. Assertive shell nouns
  7. Chapter 4. Commissive shell nouns
  8. Chapter 5. Directive shell nouns
  9. Chapter 6. Expressive shell nouns
  10. Chapter 7. Declarative shell nouns
  11. Chapter 8. Discussion and Conclusion
  12. References
  13. Appendix 1
  14. Appendix 2
  15. Index of illocutionary shell nouns
  16. Index of subjects