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Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English

Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English
Author: Hirtle, Walter
Price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0773576436
ISBN-13: 9780773576438
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While ordinary speakers - and some linguists - assume we have a mental dictionary stocked with words ready for use, Walter Hirtle shows that this view leads to contradictions. Focusing on the English noun with its modifiers and determiners, he proposes a radically different approach, arguing that a word's meaning is formed from formative elements each time we use it.