English grammar : principles and facts
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English grammar : principles and facts
Prentice Hall, c1995
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This text gives broad, up-to-date coverage of English grammatical facts and related concepts of introductory linguistics, emphasizing argumentation and motivation for empirically-based grammatical analyses without theoretical debates. It treats the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, phonology, morphology, word classes, phrase structure analysis of both simple sentences and a variety of complex sentences, grammatical relations, and anaphora (pronouns and pronoun-like elements).
Table of Contents
1. Some Ways of Thinking About Grammar.
2. The Structure of English Sound.
3. The Structure of English Words.
4. Parts of Speech.
5. Nouns and Verbs: Subclasses and Features.
6. Phrase Structure.
7. Grammatical Relations and Semantic Roles.
8. Noncanonical Sentence Forms.
9. Relative Clauses and Participles.
10. Proexpressions.
Index.
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