| Description |
xvii, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Does Grammar Mean? -- Grammaticality (Acceptability) Judgments -- Historical Periods -- Edited English -- It's All in Your Head -- 1. Basic Sentence Structure -- The Subject -- Syntax of the Subject -- Semantic Roles of the Subject -- Discourse Functions of the Subject -- The Predicate -- Transitive Verbs and Direct Objects -- Semantic Roles of the Direct Object -- Covert Direct Objects -- "Light" Transitive Verbs -- Degrees of Transitivity -- Intransitive Verbs -- Ditransitive Verbs and Indirect Objects -- Degrees of Ditransitivity -- Not All Recipients Alternate -- Discourse Functions of the Indirect Object -- Benefactives -- Copulas and Subject Complements -- Sensory Copulas -- Stative Copulas -- Change of State Copulas -- Copula Be -- Restricted Copulas--Stative and Change of State -- Complex Transitive Verbs and Object Complements -- Degrees of Complex Transitivity -- Marked and Unmarked Word Order -- 2. The Noun Phrase -- The Determiner -- Articles -- Demonstratives (and Deixis) -- Indefinite This -- Quantifying Determiners -- Genitive Determiners -- Interrogative Determiners -- Predeterminers and Postdeterminers -- Genitives -- Genitive Semantic Types -- Double Genitives -- Group Genitive -- Generic Reference -- Proper Nouns -- Non-Count Nouns -- Categorizing Non-Count Nouns -- Collective Nouns -- Pronouns -- Personal Pronouns -- Reflexive Pronouns -- Reciprocal Pronouns -- Demonstrative Pronouns -- Quantifying Pronouns -- Indefinite Pronouns -- Interrogative Pronouns -- Noun Phrases in Discourse -- 3. The Verb Phrase -- Tense -- Tense and Meaning -- Finite and Non-Finite Verbs -- Aspect -- Progressive Aspect -- Perfect Aspect -- Tense and Aspect in Discourse -- Passive Voice -- Transitive Verbs that Don't (Readily) Passivize -- Get Passive -- Passives with No Corresponding Active -- The Passive in Discourse -- Word Order and the Passive -- Primary Auxiliaries and the Lexical Verb -- Multi-Word Lexical Verbs -- Movable Particles -- Unmovable Particles -- Identifying Multi-Word Verbs -- Modality -- Epistemic Modality in General -- Deontic Modality in General -- Modal Auxiliaries -- Semi-Auxiliaries -- Auxiliaries, Time, and Tense -- Mood and Modality -- The Verb Phrase and Scope of Negation -- Scope of Negation and Auxiliaries -- The Verb Phrase and Questions -- Yes/No Questions -- Information Seeking Questions (Wh Questions) -- Tag Questions -- Multi-Word Auxiliaries as Operators in Questions and Tags -- Historical Development of the Operator -- Exclamations -- Existential There Constructions -- Narrative Discourse and the Verb Phrase -- 4. Modification -- Modification of the Noun and the Noun Phrase -- Prenominal Adjectives -- Predicate Adjectives -- Postnominal Adjectives and Adjective Phrases -- Object Complement Adjectives -- Limiters -- Gradability -- Adjectives and Compound Nouns -- Adjective Order in the Noun Phrase -- Internal Structure of the Adjective Phrase -- Adjective Complements -- Use of the Term Adverb -- Adjunct Adverbs -- Intensifying, Downtoning, and Limiting Adjuncts -- Locatives (Space Adverbs) -- Temporal Adverbs -- Adverbs of Manner -- Adverbs of Means -- Adverbs of Reason/Purpose -- Adverbs of Result -- Adverbial Proforms -- Some Other Adjunct Categories -- Problems in Categorizing Adjuncts -- Movability of Adjuncts -- Adjuncts and the Scope of Negation -- Stacking and Coordination of Adjuncts -- Adjective Phrases Revisited -- Adjunct Forms That Modify Adjectives -- Adjectives That Function as Adjuncts -- Disjuncts -- Attitude Disjuncts -- Style Disjuncts -- Point of View Disjuncts -- Epistemic Disjuncts -- Conjuncts -- Sequencing Conjuncts -- Adding and Reinforcing Conjuncts -- Resulting Conjuncts -- Transitional Conjuncts -- Concessive Conjuncts -- Some Other Conjuncts -- Conjuncts in Discourse -- 5. Clauses: Coordination and Subordination -- Clauses -- Conjoining -- Conjunction And -- Conjunction r -- Conjunction But -- Coordination and Questions -- Ellipsis and Gapping -- Embedding -- Nominal Clauses -- That Clauses -- Infinitive Clauses -- ING Clauses -- Relative Tense in Non-Finite Clauses -- Wh Nominal Clauses -- Clauses as Adjective Complements -- Postnominal Modification -- Restrictive Relative Clauses -- Other Restrictive Postnominal Modifiers -- Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses -- Restrictive Appositives -- Adverbial Clauses -- Locative Adverbs -- Temporal Adverbs -- Adverbs of Manner -- Adverbs of Means -- Adverbs of Reason/Purpose and Result -- Disjuncts and Conjuncts -- Concessive and Conditional Clauses -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Each chapter ends with a "Summing Up" section |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Syntax.
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| LC no. |
98023348 |
| ISBN |
0195123522 (acid-free paper) |
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0195123530 (paperback) |
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