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English grammar : a function-based introduction. Volume I /
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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- ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume I; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATION; 1.1.1. Structure vs. function; 1.1.2. Arbitrary vs. motivated rules of grammar; 1.1.3. Rules of grammar vs. communicative strategies; 1.1.4. Cross-language diversity of grammatical strategies; 1.2. WHOSE GRAMMAR?; 1.2.1. Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammars; 1.2.2. Historic time; 1.2.3. Age: The grammar of youth; 1.2.4. Spoken vs. written language; 1.2.5. Educated vs. uneducated grammar; 1.2.6. Formal vs. informal grammar.
- 1.2.7. Grammar and social status1.2.8. Grammar and ethnic minorities; 1.2.9. Geographical dialects; 1.2.10. Grammar and foreign talk; 1.2.11. Grammar and individual style; 1.3. GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATION; 1.3.1. Major functions of language; 1.3.2. Words, clauses, discourse; 1.3.3. Grammar as a communicative code; 1.3.3.1. Joint coding; 1.3.3.2. Coding devices in syntax; 1.4. THEME AND VARIATION IN SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION; 1.5. PARSING: TREE DIAGRAMS; 1.6. DEEP STRUCTURE, SURFACE STRUCTURE AND MEANING; NOTES; 2. VOCABULARY: WORDS AND MORPHEMES; 2.1. PRELIMINARIES.
- 2.1.1. Recapitulation: Meaning, information and communication2.1.2. The conceptual lexicon: Semantic features and semantic fields; 2.1.3. Shared vocabulary: Meaning and cultural world-view; 2.1.4. History of the English lexicon; 2.2. LEXICAL VS. GRAMMATICAL VOCABULARY; 2.2.1. Lexical words; 2.2.2. Grammatical morphemes; 2.2.3. Derivational morphemes; 2.3. THE MORPHEMIC STATUS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY; 2.4. LEXICAL WORD-CLASSES; 2.4.1. Membership criteria; 2.4.2. Natural classes: Prototypicality and variability; 2.4.3. Semantic overview; 2.4.4. Nouns; 2.4.4.1. Semantic characteristics.
- 2.4.4.2. Syntactic behavior2.4.4.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5. Adjectives; 2.4.5.1. Semantic characteristics; 2.4.5.1.1. Prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.2. Less prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.3. Derived adjectives; 2.4.5.1.4. Polarity of antonymic pairs; 2.4.5.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.5.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5.3.1. Grammatical morphology; 2.4.5.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.6. Verbs; 2.4.6.1. Semantic characterization; 2.4.6.2. Syntactic characterization; 2.4.6.3. Morphological characterization; 2.4.6.3.1. Grammatical morphology.
- 2.4.6.3.2. Derivational morphology2.4.7. Adverbs; 2.4.7.1. Preamble; 2.4.7.2. Mariner adverbs; 2.4.7.3. Time, frequency or aspectuality adverbs; 2.4.7.4. Epistemic adverbs; 2.4.7.5. Evaluative adverbs; 2.4.7.6. Adverbs modifying adjectives; 2.4.7.7. Emphatic adverbs; 2.5. MINOR WORD CLASSES; 2.5.1. Preamble; 2.5.2. Prepositions; 2.5.3. Inter-clausal connectives; 2.5.3.1. Conjunctions; 2.5.3.2. Subordinators; 2.5.4. Pronouns; 2.5.5. Determiners; 2.5.5.1. Articles; 2.5.5.2. Demonstratives; 2.5.5.3. Possessor pronouns; 2.5.6. Quantifiers; 2.5.7. Numerals; 2.5.8. Ordinals; 2.5.9. Auxiliarie.