English Grammar: An Outline

ISBN-13: 9780521311526 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 228 str.

Rodney Huddleston

Opis

This elementary textbook provides a succinct step-by-step account of all the most important and central English construction and categories. Rodney Huddleston's earlier work, An Introduction to the Grammar of English, was praised by reviewers for its clarity, and that is a particular strength of this new textbook as well. The book draws on descriptive and theoretical advances made in modern linguistics, but any significant departures from traditional grammar are pointed out. An important feature of the book is that it explains the major grammatical categories at both a language-particular level (specifically for English) and a general level, so that it could be used as a concise reference work for English by students taking courses in language typology.

Spis treści

1. Preliminaries; 2. The parts of speech: a preliminary outline; 3. Verbs; 4. The structure of kernel clauses; 5. Tense, aspect and modality; 6. Nouns and noun phrases; 7. Adjectives, determinatives and numerals; 8. Adverbs and prepositions; 9. Clause type; 10. Negation; 11. The subordination of clauses; 12. Thematic systems of the clause; 13. Coordination.