| Description |
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to the English language |
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Cambridge introductions to the English language.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Language and this book; 1.1 Words; 1.2 Word structure: morphology; 1.3 Sentence structure: phrases, clauses and sentences; 1.4 Structure and convention in language use; 1.5 Syntax, grammar and 'ungrammatical'; 1.6 Standard English, descriptive and prescriptive; 1.7 Chapter summary; Exercises; Further reading; Further reading; Further reading; Further reading; Further reading; Further Reading; Further reading; Further reading; Further reading; Further reading; Chapter 2 Word classes; 2.1 Nouns; 2.1.1 Meaning; 2.1.2 Morphological features |
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2.1.3 Syntactic criteria2.1.4 Sub-classes of nouns including pronouns; 2.2 Verbs; 2.2.1 Meaning; 2.2.2 Morphological features; 2.2.3 Syntactic criteria; 2.2.4 Sub-classes of verbs: auxiliary and modal verbs; Auxiliary verbs; Modal verbs; 2.3 Adjectives; 2.4 Adverbs; 2.5 Determiners; 2.6 Prepositions; 2.7 Conjunctions; 2.7.1 Coordinators; 2.7.2 Subordinators; 2.8 Chapter summary; Exercises; Chapter 3 Derivational morphology; 3.1 Morphemes, morphs and allomorphs; 3.2 Free and bound morphemes; 3.3 Derivational and inflectional morphemes; 3.3.1 Derivational morphology: class-changing |
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3.3.2 Derivational morphology: meaning-changing3.4 Compounding; 3.5 Conversion; 3.6 Shortening bases; 3.6.1 Blending; 3.6.2 Backformation; 3.6.3 Clipping; 3.6.4 Abbreviations and acronyms; 3.7 Chapter summary; Exercises; Chapter 4 Inflectional morphology; 4.1 Differences between derivation and inflection; 4.1.1 Relevance to syntax; 4.1.2 Replaceability; 4.1.3 Obligatoriness; 4.1.4 Semantic regularity; 4.1.5 Semantic effect; 4.1.6 New concepts; 4.1.7 Abstract vs. concrete meaning; 4.1.8 Applicability; 4.1.9 Proximity to the base; 4.1.10 Recursion; 4.1.11 Gerunds |
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4.2 Inflectional morphology on nouns: number4.3 Inflectional morphology on verbs; 4.3.1 Tense; 4.3.2 Aspect; 4.3.3 Mood; 4.4 Agreement; 4.5 Morphology in other languages; 4.6 Chapter summary; Exercises; Chapter 5 Phrase structure 1; 5.1 Relations between words; 5.2 What are 'heads' in syntax?; 5.3 Nouns and the words they combine with; 5.3.1 Determiners; 5.3.2 Other ways of limiting noun reference; 5.3.3 Nouns and adjectives; 5.3.4 Nouns and prepositions; 5.4 Adjectives and words they combine with; 5.5 Adverbs and words they combine with; 5.6 Chapter summary; Exercises |
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Chapter 6 Phrase structure 26.1 Verbs; 6.2 Lexical and auxiliary verbs; 6.3 Sequence of verbs; 6.3.1 Mood: modal auxiliary verbs; 6.3.2 Tense; 6.3.3 Aspect: progressive BE and perfective HAVE; 6.3.4 Voice: passive BE; 6.4 The verb phrase; 6.5 Finding phrases; 6.5.1 Substitution; 6.5.2 Movement; 6.5.3 Coordination; 6.6 Representing sentence structure; 6.7 Chapter summary; Exercises; Consolidation chapter 1; Chapter 7 Functional analysis; 7.1 Structure, form and function; 7.2 The basic sentence structures; 7.3 Subjects, predicates and verbs; 7.4 The subject; 7.5 The predicate |
| Summary |
Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar.
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Morphology.
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English language -- Grammar
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English language -- Morphology
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English language -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ozon, Gabriel
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| ISBN |
9781139844628 |
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1139844628 |
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9781139030328 |
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1139030329 |
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9781139853705 |
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1139853708 |
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9781139847797 |
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1139847791 |
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