Modern Dutch Grammar: A Practical Guide by Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

By Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

Modern Dutch Grammar: a pragmatic Guide is an leading edge reference consultant to Dutch, combining conventional and function-based grammar in one quantity. With a robust emphasis on modern utilization, all grammar issues and capabilities are richly illustrated with examples.

The Grammar is split into components. Part I covers conventional grammatical different types akin to nouns and verbs. Part II is punctiliously prepared round language capabilities and contexts such as:

Giving and looking info Describing strategies and effects Expressing attitudes, psychological states and feelings Registers and elegance Formal and casual conversation, e.g. formative years talk

Main gains of the Grammar include:
• transparent, succinct and jargon-free factors
• large cross-referencing among the various sections
• Emphasis on components of specific hassle for freshmen of Dutch

This is the perfect reference grammar for newbies of Dutch in any respect degrees, from basic to complex; no past wisdom of grammatical terminology is believed and it presents indices of grammatical phrases and capabilities. This Grammar is complemented via a better half web site that includes similar workouts and actions to enhance studying.

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A2: Right, and when you say shaved a little bit B2: Yeah yo- - you sort of just - got your thing and zazoom! A3: Yeah but - is it that shorf really? B3: Yeah to-, yeah and I A4: you want a number four? B4: Yeah I think so. A5: So yeah, I was well pleased, cos you remember the time before I said I wasn't petfect. B5: A6: That's right yeah -yeah - I mean I'm being honest. B6: Yeah - mm. A7: But I was well pleased with this one. B7: Yeah. A8: I was - I thought it looked good - and I thought, I was quite confident that it would stay in very well, you know?

C o ~ t) Cheers man. g. hm, uhhuh, ugh, yeah). Inserts are more marginal than lexical words and function words. It can indeed be debated whether some of the forms in our conversation passage should be recognized as words at all. But there is no doubt that they play an important role in communication. If we are to describe spoken language adequately, we need to pay more attention to them than has traditionally been done (see Chapter 14). Traditionally, interjections are the only type of insert that has been described in most grammars.

4). g. promise occurs a high proportion of the time with a simple transitive pattern, while tell occurs most of the time with a ditransitive pattern). Associations of this type are reported through percentages. For example, about 55 percent of the tokens of promise analyzed in fiction take a monotransitive pattern, while about 70 percent of the tokens of tell analyzed in that register take a ditransitive pattern. ) Findings reported as percentages provide no information about overall frequency.

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