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A critical account of English syntax : grammar, meaning, text /

Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brown, E. K. (Autor), Miller, J. E. (James Edward), 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Colección:Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Organisation and content
  • Why study the grammar of English?
  • What counts as the grammar of English?
  • The data
  • Grammaticality
  • Grammaticality and acceptability
  • Grammaticality and intuition
  • Grammaticality and power
  • Grammaticality: descriptive and prescriptive grammar
  • Grammaticality and language change
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: introduction
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and denotation
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and gradability
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as heads of noun phrases
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as a word class
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjective positions in noun phrases
  • Adjectives and adjective phrases: reduplication
  • Adverbs and adverb phrases
  • Adverbs and adverb phrases: introduction
  • Adverbs and adverb phrases: adverbs and adjectives.
  • Adverbs and adverb phrases: structure of adverb phrases
  • Adverbial clauses
  • Adverbial clauses: introduction
  • Adverbial clauses: time, condition, reason, concession
  • Adverbial clauses: less common types
  • Adverbial clauses: position in clauses and sentences
  • Adverbial clauses: spoken English
  • Adverbial clauses: subordinate clause or main clause?
  • Clause and text
  • Clause and text: introduction
  • Clause and text: clefts
  • IT clefts
  • WH clefts
  • Reverse WH clefts
  • TH clefts
  • Clause and text: cohesion
  • Cohesion: orientation
  • Cohesion: orientation in place
  • Cohesion: orientation in time
  • Cohesion: orientation in time: tense and aspect
  • Cohesion: co-reference and referent tracking
  • Cohesion: coordination and subordination
  • Cohesion: adverbials and conjunctions
  • Clause and Text: Cohesion
  • Active, Passive, Middle
  • Clause and Text: Discourse Markers
  • Clause and text: ellipsis
  • Clause and text: focus.
  • Clause and text: focus: special syntactic constructions
  • Clause and text: focus: word order
  • Clause and text: given and new
  • Clause and text: non-finite clauses
  • Clause and text: spoken and written text
  • Clause and text: theme
  • Clause structure
  • Clause structure: introduction
  • Clause structure: constituents
  • Transposition
  • Substitution
  • Coordination
  • Clause structure: dependency relations
  • Clause structure: hierarchical structure
  • Clause structure: linearity and predicate-argument structure
  • Clause structure: linearity and grammatical functions
  • Clause structure: verb phrases
  • Clause structure: integrated and unintegrated syntax
  • Clefts
  • Clauses: clefts
  • Complement clauses
  • Complement clauses: complementisers
  • Complement clauses: embedded interrogatives
  • Complement clauses: mood and modality
  • Complement clauses: gerunds, infinitives and meaning
  • Complement clauses: noun complement clauses.
  • Constructions
  • Constructions: overview
  • Non-finite clauses
  • Non-finite clauses: introduction
  • Non-finite clauses: infinitives
  • Non-finite clauses: free participles
  • Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 1)
  • Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 2)
  • Non-finite clauses: reduced adverbials
  • Non-finite clauses: reduced relatives
  • Non-finite clauses: verb stem
  • Non-finite clauses: with + NP
  • Non-finite clauses: eight types or four?
  • Nouns and noun phrases
  • Nouns and noun phrases: introduction
  • Nouns and noun phrases: common and proper
  • Nouns and noun phrases: count and mass
  • Countability: individuals and substances
  • Partitives
  • Number and agreement
  • Nouns and noun phrases: determinatives
  • Nouns and noun phrases: pronouns
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: introduction
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and particles.
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions, transitive and intransitive
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional phrases, their distribution
  • Complements of verbs
  • Complements (or postmodifiers) of nouns
  • Complements (or postmodifiers) of adjectives
  • Complements of prepositions
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and meaning
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional verbs
  • Relative clauses
  • Relative clauses: introduction
  • Relative clauses: contact
  • Relative clauses: free
  • Relative clauses: infinitival
  • Relative clauses: non-standard
  • Relative clauses: propositional
  • Relative clauses: restrictive and non-restrictive
  • Relative clauses: shadow pronouns
  • Relative clauses: th
  • Relative clauses: unattached
  • Relative clauses: unintegrated
  • Relative clauses: wh
  • Relative clauses: wh words as deictics
  • Relative clauses: which as discourse connective.
  • Sentences and clauses
  • Sentences and clauses: introduction
  • Sentences and clauses: clauses
  • Sentences and clauses: complex sentences
  • Sentences and clauses: compound sentences
  • Sentences and clauses: main and subordinate clauses
  • Sentences and clauses: sentence fragments
  • Sentences and clauses: simple sentences
  • Sentences and clauses: subordinate clauses: preposition or complementiser?
  • Sentences and clauses: system sentence and text sentence
  • Verbs and verb phrases
  • Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect: introduction
  • Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect in English
  • Verbs and verb phrases: future tense
  • Verbs and verb phrases: middle construction
  • Verbs and verb phrases: mood and modality
  • Verbs and verb phrases: passive voice
  • Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and adverbs
  • Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and resultative
  • Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and simple past.
  • Verbs and verb phrases: progressive aspect
  • Verbs and verb phrases: simple present
  • Verbs and verb phrases: situation (lexical) aspect
  • Word classes
  • Word classes: introduction
  • Word classes: major and minor
  • Word classes: gradience
  • Word classes: criteria
  • Word classes: semantics
  • Word classes: syntactic criteria and sub-classes.