A Student's Grammar of the English Language

by Greenbaum, Sidney; Quirk, Randolph

• ISBN13: 9780582059719
• ISBN10: 0582059712
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-02-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

A Students Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form sentence to text The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
The English language	1	(10)
A general framework	11	(13)
Verbs and auxiliaries	24	(23)
The semantics of the verb phrase	47	(23)
Nouns and determiners	70	(38)
Pronouns	108	(21)
Adjectives and adverbs	129	(29)
The semantics and grammar of adverbials	158	(30)
Prepositions and prepositional phrases	188	(16)
The simple sentence	204	(27)
Sentence types and discourse functions	231	(16)
Pro-forms and ellipsis	247	(15)
Coordination	262	(21)
The complex sentence	283	(21)
Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses	304	(32)
Complementation of verbs and adjectives	336	(27)
The noun phrase	363	(31)
Theme, focus, and information processing	394	(40)
From sentence to text	434	(42)
Bibliography	476	(9)
Index	485