English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing and Philip Locke.
Material type: TextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London : Routledge, 2006Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 610 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415287871
- 9780415287876
- 0415287863
- 9780415287869
- 428.24 22
- 425 22
- PE1112 .D68 2006
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Previous ed.: published as A university course in English grammar. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic concepts -- The skeleton of the message: introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb -- Conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants, circumstances -- Interaction between speaker and hearer: linking speech acts and grammar -- Organising the message: thematic and information structures of the clause -- Expanding the message: clause combinations -- Talking about events: the verbal group - Viewpoints on events: tense, aspect and modality -- Talking about people and things: the nominal group -- describing persons, things and circumstances: adjectival and adverbial groups -- Spatial, temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase -- --
1. Basic concepts -- 2. The skeleton of the message : introduction to clause structure -- 3. The development of message : complementation of the verb -- 4. Conceptualising patterns of experience : processes, participants, circumstances -- 5. Interaction between speaker and hearer : linking speech acts and grammar -- 6. Organising the message : thematic and information structures of the clause -- 7. Expanding the message : clause combinations -- 8. Talking about events : the verbal group -- 9. Viewpoints on events : tense, aspect and modality -- 10. Talking about people and things : the nominal group -- 11. Describing persons, things and circumstances : adjectival and adverbial groups -- 12. Spatial, temporal and other relationships : the prepositional phrase.
"This up-to-date, descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and post-graduate students of English, and is particularly suitable for those whose native language is not English."--BOOK JACKET.
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