A student's grammar of the English language / Sidney Greenbaum and Randolph Quirk

By:

Greenbaum, Sidney

Contributor(s):

Quirk, Randolph

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harlow : Longman, c1990.Description: 490 pages : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780582059719

Subject(s):

English language grammar

DDC classification:

425 GRE

Contents:

The English language A general framework Verbs and auxiliaries The semantics of the verb phrase Nouns and determiners Pronouns Adjectives and verbs The semantics and grammar of adverbials Prepositions and prepositional phrases The simple sentence Sentence types and discourse functions Pro-forms and ellipsis Coordination The complex sentence Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses Complementation of verbs and adjectives The noun phrase Theme, focus, and information processing From sentence to text

Summary: A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities, drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English

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"Basically a shortened version of A comprehensive grammar of the English language (1985) ... adapted to the needs of students ... [with] use of research that has been published since [1985]"--Preface

Includes bibliography (p. 446 - 484) and index

The English language
A general framework
Verbs and auxiliaries
The semantics of the verb phrase
Nouns and determiners
Pronouns
Adjectives and verbs
The semantics and grammar of adverbials
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
The simple sentence
Sentence types and discourse functions
Pro-forms and ellipsis
Coordination
The complex sentence
Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses
Complementation of verbs and adjectives
The noun phrase
Theme, focus, and information processing
From sentence to text

A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities, drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English

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