Analyzing English Grammar
ISBN: 9780205685943 | 0205685943
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 7/22/2009
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This advanced grammar text encouragesreaders to think critically about grammar and exposes them to a variety of linguistic theories.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| What Is Grammar? | |
| Grammar Versus Usage | |
| Descriptive Grammars | |
| Grammatical Prototypes | |
| Learning About Grammar | |
| Aids to Learning About Language | |
| Diagramming | |
| IC Analysis | |
| Phrase Structure Trees | |
| Suggestions for Reading This Book | ... MORE |
| Key Terms | |
| Endnotes | |
| Varieties of English | |
| Regional Dialects | |
| Social Dialects | |
| Standard American English | |
| Styles | |
| Second Language Acquisition | |
| English in an International Context | |
| Summary | |
| Key Terms | |
| Endnotes | |
| The Morphology of English | |
| Morphemes | |
| Allomorphs | |
| Inflectional Morphemes | |
| Noun Inflections | |
| Verb Inflections | |
| Adjective and Adverb Inflections | |
| Functional Shift | |
| Derivational Morphemes | |
| Form Classes and Structure Classes | |
| A Word About Words Summary | |
| Review Exercises | |
| Key Terms | |
| Form-Class Words | |
| Form and function | |
| Forms with Overlapping Functions | |
| Nouns | |
| Prototypes and Peripheral | |
| Subclasses and Features | |
| Noun Subclasses | |
| Verbs | |
| Verb Subclasses | |
| Adjectives | |
| Adjective Subclasses | |
| Adverbs | |
| Adverb Subclasses | |
| Analyzing Form and function | |
| Comments and Suggestions | |
| Summary | |
| Review Exercises | |
| Key Terms | |
| Endnotes | |
| Structure-Class Words | |
| Structure-Class versus Form-Class Words | |
| Determiners | |
| Diagrams and Trees | |
| Auxiliaries | |
| Moda | |
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