Grammar of spoken and written English
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Grammar of spoken and written English
John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each grammatical feature, based on empirical analyses of grammatical patterns in a 40-million-word corpus of spoken and written registers. Grammar-in-use is characterized by three inter-related kinds of information: frequency of grammatical features in spoken and written registers, frequencies of the most common lexico-grammatical patterns, and analysis of the discourse factors influencing choices among related grammatical features. GSWE includes over 350 tables and figures highlighting the results of corpus-based investigations. Throughout the book, authentic examples illustrate all research findings. The empirical descriptions document the lexico-grammatical features tha
Contents of Works
- Introduction: A corpus-based approach to English grammar
- Word and phrase grammar
- Clause grammar
- Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase
- Verbs
- Variation in the verb phrase : tense, aspect, voice, and modality
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Complex noun phrases
- The form and function of complement clauses
- Adverbials
- Word order and related syntactic choices
- The grammatical marking of stance
- Lexical expressions in speech and writing
- The grammar of conversation
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