Linguistic perspectives on English grammar : a guide for EFL teachers /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Endley, Martin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., 2010.
Temas:
English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
English language > Grammar > Study and teaching.
English teachers > Training of.
Anglais (Langue) > Étude et enseignement > Allophones.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > English as a Second Language.
English language > Grammar > Study and teaching
English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
English teachers > Training of
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).
  • Informing and Commenting on "News"
  • Tense and Aspect in Combination: The English Past Simple
  • Single Completed Event
  • Extended Situation, Now Completed
  • Series of Regualr Events
  • Conditional Possibility
  • Signaling Politeness
  • Tense and Aspect in Combination: The English Present and Past Progressive
  • Progressive Marking on Verbs: A Potential Problem
  • Tense and Aspect in Combination: The English Present and Past Perfect
  • Perfect of Result
  • Experiential Perfect
  • Perfect of Persistent Situation
  • Perfect of Recent Past
  • Recurrent Event Perfect
  • Some More Patterns
  • Pattern 1 Have + Been + V-ing
  • Pattern 2 Had + Been + V-ing
  • Pattern 3 Modal auxiliary + Have + Been + V-ing
  • Back to the Future: Will or Be Going To?
  • Further Reading
  • 8. Modality and Negation
  • What is Modality?
  • The Prototypical Modal Auxiliaries in English: Morphosyntactic Properties
  • Acceptance of the NICE Properties.
  • Absence of a Third Person Singular Inflection
  • Modal Auxiliaries: Some Additional Grammatical Characteristics
  • The Semantics of the Prototypical Modals
  • Can
  • Could
  • May
  • Might
  • Must
  • Will
  • Shall
  • Would
  • Should
  • Ought
  • Some Semi-Modal Expressions
  • Grammatical Features of Semi-modals
  • The Semantics of the Semi-Modals
  • Be Going To
  • Be Able To
  • Be Supposed To
  • Have To and Have Got To
  • Had Better and Had Best
  • Go Un-V
  • Negative Utterances and the Particle Not
  • The Semantics of Not
  • Not as a Non-verbal Negator
  • Complex Negators Involving Not
  • Further Reading
  • 9. Questions and Focus Constructions
  • Interrogative Utterances
  • Yes/No Interrogatives
  • Replying to Yes/No Interrogatives
  • Wh-Interrogatives
  • Some Other Types of Questions
  • Passive Voice in English: Some General Remarks
  • Reasons for Omitting the Agent in Passive Constructions
  • What Can Be Passivized and What Can't?
  • A Scale of Passivity
  • English Passives: Meaning and Use
  • Get Passive
  • Middle Voice Constructions
  • Some Other Focus Constructions
  • Clefting
  • Fronting
  • Left-dislocation
  • Locative Inversion
  • Further Reading
  • 10.Complex Sentences in English: Coordination and Subordination
  • Coordinated Clauses
  • The Semantics of And, Or, and But
  • And
  • Or
  • But
  • Other Coordinators?
  • Correlative Coordinators
  • The Idea of Subordination
  • Three Types of Finite Complement Clause
  • That Clause Complements
  • Wh-Clause Complements
  • If/Whether Clause Complements
  • Types of Nonfinite Complement Clauses
  • Infinitive Clause Complements
  • Infinitives With and Without Subjects
  • -Ing Clause Complements
  • Infinitives or -ing?
  • The Label Gerund (Or: To Be a Noun or Not To be a Noun?
  • Further Reading
  • 11.Complex Sentences in English: Relative Clauses and Related Constructions
  • What Is a Relative Clause?
  • The Position of English Relative Clauses
  • Marking English Relative Clauses: The Relative Proforms
  • Selecting Proforms
  • Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
  • The Discourse Function of Restrictive Relative Clauses
  • Syntactic Constraints on Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
  • Relative Adverbial Clauses
  • Nonprototypical Relative Clauses
  • Some Related Clauses
  • Further Reading
  • 12.Complex Sentences in English: Adverbial, Participial, and Conditional Clauses
  • The Adverbial Function in English: An Overview
  • Some Basic Functions of Adverbial Clauses
  • Participial Adverbial Clauses
  • Adverbials of Condition
  • The Main Types of Conditionals
  • Simple (Real) Conditional Constructions
  • Predicative (Real) Conditionals
  • Hypothetical (Unreal) Conditionals
  • Counterfactual (Unreal) Conditionals
  • Some Other Types of Conditional
  • Conditioanal Clauses in Discourse.

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