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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| 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.