Synopses & Reviews
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.