English grammar: an introduction
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| adam_text | Titel: English grammar
Autor: Collins, Peter
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
Symbols and Conventions xi
Part A Grammatical Description 1
1 Introduction 3
1.1 Grammar and the Description of Language 3
1.2 Defining Grammatical Categories 4
1.3 Grammatical Categories and Prototypes 6
1.4 Morphology: Words and Lexemes 7
1.5 Constituent Structure 9
1.6 Classes and Functions 13
1.7 Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar 15
1.8 Grammar and the Description of Texts 18
1.9 Grammar and Language Variety 20
Exercises 26
2 A Preliminary Overview 30
2.1 The Parts of Speech 30
2.2 Words and Phrases 33
2.3 The Open Classes 36
2.4 The Closed Classes 39
2.5 Basic and Non-basic Clauses 42
2.6 The Structure of Basic Clauses: a Preview 43
Exercises 47
3 Nouns and Noun Phrases 51
3.1 Subclasses of Nouns 51
3-2 Proper Nouns 55
3-3 Pronouns 55
3.4 Noun Phrase Structure 61
3.5 Pre-head Dependents 62
3.6 Post-head Dependents 65
3.7 Nominalisation 67
Exercises 68
Verbs and Verb Phrases 71
4.1 Verbs 71
4.2 Auxiliary Verbs 75
4.3 Verb Phrase Structure and Meaning 78
Exercises 85
Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions and Associated Phrases 89
5.1 Adjectives 89
5.2 Adjective Phrase Structure 92
5.3 Adverbs 93
5.4 Adverb Phrase Structure 95
5.5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 95
Exercises 98
Clause Structure and Clause Type 101
6.1 The Structure of Basic Clauses 101
6.2 Five Major Complementation Patterns 103
6.3 Non-central Types of Complement 104
6.4 Clause Type ( mood ) 110
6.5 The Sun Rising ? A Text-based Demonstration 114
6.6 Negation in the Clause 116
Exercises 119
Subordination and Coordination 123
7.1 Sentences and Clauses 123
7.2 Subordination and Coordination 124
7.3 Subordinate Clauses 127
7.4 Non-finite Clauses 135
7.5 Verbless Clauses 139
7.6 Coordination 139
7.7 Flattened Tree Analysis 141
Exercises 147
Information Structure in the Clause 151
8.1 Information Structure 151
8.2 Active and Passive Clauses 152
8.3 Subject-complement Switch 154
8.4 Extraposition 155
8.5 Existential Sentences 156
8.6 Cleft Sentences 159
8.7 Reordering 160
Exercises 164
Part B Looking at Language in Context 167
9 From Separate Sentences to Connected Text 169
9.1 Some Preliminary Considerations 169
9.2 Reconsidering Sentences 170
9.3 Cohesion 175
9.4 Analysis of Cohesion in Sample Texts 187
Exercises 192
10 Text and Context 194
10.1 Dimensions of Register: Field, Mode and Tenor 194
10.2 Further Dimensions: Functions and Genre 210
Exercises 212
11 Text Analysis ? Putting It All Together 215
11.1 Top-down Approach 215
11.2 Bottom-up Approach 217
11.3 Demonstration Analyses: The Scope of
Linguistics and Mysteries 221
Exercises 231
Appendixes
A anyone lived in a pretty how town 234
B Recipe 236
C Seaview advertisement 237
D Army recruitment advertisement 238
E Extract from Creature Features 239
F Interview with Sydney band FourPhy 240
G Mysteries 243
H The Sun Rising 245
I When Arnie Speaks, There s No Going Back 247
J The Rising Levels of Debt that Stop Workers Clocking Off 249
K The Scope of Linguistics 252
Answers to Exercises 254
Glossary 266
Some Useful References 277
Index 279
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