English syntax : a grammar for English language professionals / Roderick A. Jacobs.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0194342778
- 9780194342773
- 428.2 20
- 425
- PE1365 .J33 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Some basic notions -- Grammar and types of grammars -- Propositional content -- Thematic roles and levels of structure -- Some properties of sentence structure -- Part II: Clauses in English -- Clause structures -- Dependent clauses -- Finite and nonfinite clauses -- Part III: The noun phrase -- The structure of noun phrases -- Types of nouns -- Pronomials and reference -- Empty noun phrases and anaphors -- Noun phrases and case -- Part IV: Organizing the information -- Information structure -- Passive voice -- Information status and syntactic structure -- Part V: Inside the predicate phrase -- Understanding tense -- Understanding aspect -- Modals -- Modal meaning and use -- Prepositions, particles, and multiword verbs -- Part VI: Interrogatives and negatives -- Operators, interrogatives, and negatives -- Interrogative and wh movement -- Part VII: Complex sentences -- Embedded clauses and noun phrase movement -- Predicates and clause arguments -- Relative clauses -- Answer key -- Glossary.
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