A student's grammar of the English language
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harlow, England :
Longman ,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- The English language
- A general framework
- Verbs and auxiliaries
- The semantics of the verb phrase
- Nouns and determiners
- Pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
- The semantics and grammar of adverbials
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- The simple sentence
- Sentence types and discourse functions
- Pro-forms and ellipses
- Coordination
- The complex sentence
- Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses
- Complementation of verbs and adjectives
- The noun phrase
- Theme, focus, and the formation processing
- From sentence to text