Lock, Graham,

Functional English grammar : an introduction for second language teachers / Graham Lock. - xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Cambridge language education . - Cambridge language education. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-288) and index.

Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Some basic concepts -- Representing things I: Nouns and noun groups -- Representing things II: More on noun groups -- Doing and happening I: The transitivity of action processes -- Doing and happening II: Ergativity, phrasal verbs, and phase -- Seeing, liking, thinking, wanting, and saying: The transitivity of mental and verbal processes -- Being and having: The transitivity of relational and existential processes -- Representing time: Tense and temporal Adjuncts -- Interaction: Speech acts and mood -- Expressing judgments and attitudes: Modal auxiliaries and modality -- Organizing messages: Theme and focus -- Combining messages: Complex sentences -- Issues in the learning and teaching of grammar -- Appendix -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
English language--Grammar
Functionalism (Linguistics)

PE1128.A2 / L54 1996

428.007