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Navigating English Grammar A Guide to Analyzing Real Language.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
- Copyright
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Goals of the Book
- Organization of the Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is Grammar and How Do We Study It?
- Introduction
- What is English? Language Change and Variation
- What is Grammar? Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar
- Origins of Prescriptive Grammar
- The Components of Grammar
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Semantics
- Phonetics and phonology
- The Scientific Study of Language
- Exercises
- 1. Language change
- 2. Global English
- 3. American dialects
- 4. Pet peeves
- 5. "Error" correction
- 6. Syntactic intuitions
- 7. New words
- 8. Accents and stereotypes
- 9. Standard English
- Note
- References
- 2 Nouns
- Introduction
- Semantic Features of Nouns
- Abstract and concrete
- Common and proper
- Count and mass
- Collective nouns
- Generic nouns
- Noun Morphology
- Inflectional affixation
- Plurals
- Possessives
- Derivational affixation
- Other ways we form nouns
- Summary
- Exercises
- 1. Abstract and concrete
- 2. Proper and common
- 3. Proper (noun) punctuation
- 4. Semantic features of nouns
- 5. Subject-verb agreement
- 6. Weird plurals
- 7. Nominalize
- 8. Noun formation
- 9. Practice
- Reference
- 3 Noun Phrases
- Introduction
- Categories that Precede Nouns
- Determiners
- Noun phrases without determiners
- Numerals
- Quantifiers
- Order of D, NUM, and Q
- Partitive, Measure, and Collective Noun Phrases
- Possessive Noun Phrases
- NP or N: pronoun substitution
- Modifiers of Nouns
- Adjectives that modify nouns
- Nouns that modify nouns
- Verbs that modify nouns
- Summary
- Exercises
- 1. Determiner, Quantifier, Numeral, or possessive NP
- 2. Diagramming NPs
- 3. The is definitely complicated
- 4. Measure, collective, and partitive NPs
- 5. Verb agreement and partitives
- 6. Pronouns and antecedents
- 7. Noun, verb, or adjective?
- 8. The good, the bad, and the ugly
- 9. What's missing?
- 10. Practice
- Note
- References
- 4 Verbs
- Introduction
- Main Verbs
- Main Verb Morphology
- Derivational affixation and other ways we form verbs
- Inflectional affixation
- Infinitives
- Present tense
- Past tense
- Past tense variation
- Present and past participles
- Past participle variation
- Suppletion
- Summary
- Exercises
- 1. Verb forms
- 2. Verb forms (group or individual exercise)
- 3. Language variation and verb forms
- 4. Quiz your friends
- 5. Practice
- 5 Verb Phrases
- Introduction
- Auxiliary Verbs
- Morphology of have and be
- Auxiliary have and be
- Main verb have and be
- Auxiliary be
- Main verb be
- Verb strings with auxiliary have and be
- Modals
- Modal meaning
- Modal morphology and tense
- Semi-modals
- Future tense
- Verb strings with auxiliaries and modals
- Aspect
- Progressive aspect
- Perfect aspect