Peter Siemund: 2 books
Speech Acts and Clause Types
English in a Cross-Linguistic Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning,...
Varieties of English
A Typological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
English is a highly diversified language that appears in a multitude of different varieties across the globe. These varieties may differ extensively in their structural properties. This coursebook is an introduction to the fascinating range of regional and social varieties encountered around the world....