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A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) (2nd Edition) by R. Dixon Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-19-924740-4 / 0199247404 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924740-0 / 9780199247400 This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of gra |