Linguistic perspectives on English grammar a guide for EFL teachers - Endley, Martin J. (Information Age Pub., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references
1.Nouns and Noun Phrases in Linguistic Perspective -- Categorizing Words -- What is a Noun? -- Time Stability -- Concerteness -- Common Nouns and Problems of Countablity -- Common Nouns and problems of Number and plurality -- Some Further Problems with Plurality -- Some Thoughts on Proper Nouns -- Pronouns -- The personal Pronouns -- The Reciprocal Pronouns -- The Indefinite Pronouns -- Genitives and Partitives -- Further Reading -- 2.Verbs and Verb Phrases in Linguistic Persective -- What Are Verbs? -- Verbs and Situations -- Verbs, Activities, and Processes -- Verbs and punctual Situations -- Verbs and States -- The Three Primary Verbs in English -- Morphosyntactic Properties of the Primary Verbs in English -- NICE Property # 1: Negation -- NICE Property # 2: Inversion -- NICE Property # 3: Code -- NICE Property # 4: Emphasis -- The Primary Verbs as main Verbs -- Multi-Word Verbs -- Multi-Word Verbs as Lexical Verbs
Types of Multi-Word Verb -- Multi-Word Verbs: Problems of Form and Problems of Meaning -- Multi-Word Verbs: Some further Problems -- Further Reading -- 3.Adjectives and Adverbs in Linguistic Perspective -- The Adjective Word Class: Morphosyntactic Characteristics -- The Position of Adjectives: The Prenominal Position -- The Position of Adjectives: The Predicative Position -- Adjective-Forming Suffixes -- Comparative and Superlative Forms -- Modification of Adjectives -- Adjectives and Prefixes -- The Semantics of Prefixes -- The Semantics of Adjectives -- Prenominal Adjectives and the problem of Adjective order -- Two More Problems with Adjectives: Participles and Compounds -- Adverbs: A Highly Problematic Category -- Comparing Adjectives and Adverbs -- The Position of Adverbs -- Adverbs as Modifiers and Linkers -- Further Reading -- 4.Determining Words and prepostions in Linguistic Perspective -- Determining Words: Some Important Preliminaries
Determining Words and Adjectives -- The Articles in English Form -- The Articles in English: Meaning and Use -- Articles and Proper Nouns -- A Brief Notes on the Grammar of English Demonstratives -- A Brief Note on Genitive Pronouns as Determining Words -- Pre-determiners and Post-determiners -- Prepostitions in English: Some Improtant Issues -- English Prepositions: Some Remarks on Their Syntactic Properties -- English Prepositions: Meaning and Use -- Further Reading -- 5.Participants, Functions, and Roles -- Verbs and Participants -- The Idea of Grammatical Fucntions -- The Idea of Semantic Roles -- The AGENT Semantic Role -- The THEME Semantic Role -- The EXPERIENCER Semantic Role -- The PATIENT Semantic Role -- Some Further Semantic Roles -- The Subject in English -- Must We Have a Subject? -- Non-referential Subjects -- Objects in English -- Further Reading -- 6.Transitivity and Intransitivity -- What Does Transitivity Involve?
Some Thoughts on Transitive Clauses and their Verbs -- Simple Transitive Clauses -- Extended Trnasitive Clauses -- Complex Transitive Clauses -- Some Thoughts on Intransitive Clauses and Their Verbs -- Simple Intransitive Clauses and Extended Intransitive Clauses -- Complex Intransitive Clauses -- The Fluidity of Transitivity -- Further Reading -- 7.Tense and Aspect -- Tense and Aspect in English: Some Initial Reflections -- What is Tense? -- Expressing the Future in English: A Linguistic Dispute -- Tense and Aspect in Combination: The English Present Simple -- Regular or Habitual Situations -- States of Being or Possession -- Universal or "Timeless" Truths and Established Facts -- Generic Statements -- Commentary on Some Currently Unfolding Situation -- Summaries -- Performatives -- Planned or Scheduled Future Situations -- Unplanned or Unscheduled but Anticipated Future Situations -- Narration of Past Events (the Historical Present)