Classifying Adjectives (Gothenburg Studies in English #56) [Paperback]

B. Warren (Author)

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• Paperback: 318 pages
• Publisher: Humanities Pr (January 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9173461334
• ISBN-13: 978-9173461337
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,833,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Beatrice Cecilia Warren (nee Thordén), Professor Emeritus at the University of Lund, Sweden, was born in Uddevalla, Sweden in 1942. She attended school in Uddevalla and then graduated in English and German at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1963. She was awarded a diploma in Linguistic Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. She received a doctorate in 1978 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden for her research on English noun-noun compounds. During the seventies and eighties and until 1996, when she became head of the Department of English Language at Lund University, she was a teacher and researcher of English linguistics, first at Gothenburg University and then at Stockholm University. Her publications include the following books:

Semantic Patterns of Noun-Noun Compounds, Gothenburg Studies in English (1978)

Classifying Adjectives, Gothenburg Studies in English (1984)

Sense Developments, Almqvist and Wiksell International (1992)

Studies in Anglistics, Almqvist and Wiksell International (co-editor Gunnel Melchers) (1995)

Basic English Grammar, Studentlitteratur (co-authors Jean Hudson and Carita Paradis) (2001)

Referential Metonymy, Royal Society of Letters at Lund (2006)