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9780415287869

English Grammar: A University Course

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415287869

  • ISBN10:

    0415287863

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-13
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This comprehensive and up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, especially those whose native language is not English. It is also used as a reference book providing the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. Grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and redesigned with many new texts and examples of language in use. Key features include: Chapters divided into modules of class-length materials A wide variety of authentic texts and transcriptions to illustrate points of grammar and to contextualise structure Clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision Exercises and topics for individuals

Author Biography

Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Linguistics (English Philology I) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Preface to the second edition xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction xvii
Table of notational symbols
xxi
Basic concepts
1(31)
Module 1 Language and meaning
3(6)
Module 2 Linguistic forms and syntactic functions
9(12)
Module 3 Negation and expansion
21(11)
Exercises
28(4)
The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause structure
32(49)
Module 4 Syntactic functions and structures of the clause
34(8)
Module 5 Subject and Predicator
42(8)
Module 6 Direct, Indirect and Prepositional Objects
50(14)
Module 7 Subject and Object Complements
64(5)
Module 8 Adjuncts
69(12)
Further reading
76(1)
Exercises
76(5)
The development of the message: Complementation of the verb
81(39)
Introduction: Major complementation patterns and valency
83(2)
Module 9 Intransitive and copular patterns
85(5)
Module 10 Transitive patterns
90(10)
Module 11 Complementation by finite clauses
100(8)
Module 12 Complementation by non-finite clauses
108(12)
Summary of complementation patterns
114(2)
Further reading
116(1)
Exercises
116(4)
Conceptualising patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances
120(54)
Module 13 Conceptualising experiences expressed as situation types
122(6)
Module 14 Material processes of doing and happening
128(4)
Module 15 Causative processes
132(5)
Module 16 Processes of transfer
137(2)
Module 17 Conceptualising what we think, perceive and feel
139(5)
Module 18 Relational processes of being and becoming
144(7)
Module 19 Processes of saying, behaving and existing
151(4)
Module 20 Expressing attendant circumstances
155(5)
Module 21 Conceptualising experiences from a different angle: Nominalisation and grammatical metaphor
160(14)
Further reading
167(1)
Exercises
167(7)
Interaction between speaker and hearer: Linking speech acts and grammar
174(46)
Module 22 Speech acts and clause types
176(4)
Module 23 The declarative and interrogative clause types
180(10)
Module 24 The exclamative and imperative clause types
190(7)
Module 25 Indirect speech acts, clause types and discourse functions
197(4)
Module 26 Questions, clause types and discourse functions
201(4)
Module 27 Directives: getting people to carry out actions
205(15)
Further reading
212(1)
Exercises
213(7)
Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause
220(50)
Module 28 Theme: the point of departure of the message
222(16)
Module 29 The distribution and focus of information
238(8)
Module 30 The interplay of Theme-Rheme and Given-New
246(24)
Further reading
263(1)
Exercises
263(7)
Expanding the message: Clause combinations
270(45)
Module 31 Clause combining
272(5)
Module 32 Types of relationship between clauses
277(4)
Module 33 Elaborating the message
281(4)
Module 34 Extending the message
285(5)
Module 35 Enhancing the message
290(9)
Module 36 Reporting speech and thought
299(16)
Further reading
309(1)
Exercises
309(6)
Talking about events: The Verbal Group
315(35)
Module 37 Expressing our experience of events
317(6)
Module 38 Basic structures of the Verbal Group
323(8)
Module 39 Organising our experience of events
331(5)
Module 40 The semantics of phrasal verbs
336(14)
Further reading
343(1)
Exercises
343(7)
Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality
350(49)
Module 41 Expressing location in time through the verb: tense
352(9)
Module 42 Past events and present time connected: Present Perfect and Past Perfect
361(8)
Module 43 Situation types and the Progressive aspect
369(10)
Module 44 Expressing attitudes towards the event: modality
379(20)
Further reading
394(1)
Exercises
394(5)
Talking about people and things: The Nominal Group
399(74)
Module 45 Expressing our experience of people and things
401(16)
Module 46 Referring to people and things as definite, indefinite, generic
417(6)
Module 47 Selecting and particularising the referent: the determiner
423(12)
Module 48 Describing and classifying the referent: the pre-modifier
435(11)
Module 49 Identifying and elaborating the referent: the post-modifier
446(11)
Module 50 Noun complement clauses
457(16)
Further reading
462(1)
Exercises
462(11)
Describing persons, things and circumstances: Adjectival and Adverbial groups
473(56)
Module 51 Adjectives and the adjectival group
475(9)
Module 52 Degrees of comparison and intensification
484(10)
Module 53 Complementation of the adjective
494(8)
Module 54 Adverbs and the adverbial group
502(6)
Module 55 Syntactic functions of adverbs and adverbial groups
508(7)
Module 56 Modification and complementation in the adverbial group
515(14)
Further reading
521(1)
Exercises
521(8)
Spatial, temporal and other relationships: The Prepositional Phrase
529(35)
Module 57 Prepositions and the Prepositional Phrase
531(9)
Module 58 Syntactic functions of the Prepositional Phrase
540(6)
Module 59 Semantic features of the Prepositional Phrase
546(10)
Module 60 Stranded prepositions; discontinuous prepositional phrases
556(8)
Further reading
559(1)
Exercises
559(5)
Answer Key 564(27)
Select Bibliography 591(5)
Index 596

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