A student's introduction to English grammar / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum.
"This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engag...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A rapid overview
- 3. Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood
- 4. Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts
- 5. Nouns and noun phrases
- 6. Adjectives and adverbs
- 7. Prepositions and preposition phrases
- 8. Negation and related phenomena
- 9. Clause type: asking, exclaiming, and directing
- 10. Subordination and content clauses
- 11. Relative clauses
- 12. Grade and comparison
- 13. Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs
- 14. Coordination and more
- 15. Information packaging in the clause
- 16. Morphology: words and lexemes.