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A Critical Account of English Syntax : Grammar, Meaning, Text / Keith Brown, Jim Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAAPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 18 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748696093
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1361 .B48 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Grammaticality -- Adjectives and adjective phrases -- Adverbs and adverb phrases -- Adverbial clauses -- Clause and text -- Clause structure -- Clefts -- Complement clauses -- Constructions -- Non-finite clauses -- Nouns and noun phrases -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Relative clauses -- Sentences and clauses -- Verbs and verb phrases -- Word classes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A descriptive and comprehensive account of English syntax and grammarTackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion 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 grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years.Encyclopedic format gives immediate access the most relevant topicCross-referencing allows students to follow a thread and explore the interrelationships between syntactic structuresInnovative structure of the volume enables lecturers to decide the order in which they wish to discuss topics and to prescribe readingThis is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748696093

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Grammaticality -- Adjectives and adjective phrases -- Adverbs and adverb phrases -- Adverbial clauses -- Clause and text -- Clause structure -- Clefts -- Complement clauses -- Constructions -- Non-finite clauses -- Nouns and noun phrases -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Relative clauses -- Sentences and clauses -- Verbs and verb phrases -- Word classes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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A descriptive and comprehensive account of English syntax and grammarTackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion 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 grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years.Encyclopedic format gives immediate access the most relevant topicCross-referencing allows students to follow a thread and explore the interrelationships between syntactic structuresInnovative structure of the volume enables lecturers to decide the order in which they wish to discuss topics and to prescribe readingThis is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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