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A comprehensive grammar of the English language / Randolph Quirk [and three others]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: India : Pearson Education Limited, c2010Edition: Licensed EditionDescription: ix, 1779 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9788131733431
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE 1106 .Q85 2010
Contents:
Chapter1. The English Language -- Chapter2. A survey of English grammar -- Chapter3. Verbs and auxiliaries -- Chapter4. The semantics of the verb and phrases -- Chapter5. Nouns and determiners -- Chapter6. Pronouns and numerals -- Chapter7. Adjectives and adverbs -- Chapter8. The semantics and grammar of adverbials -- Chapter9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Chapter10. The simple sentences -- Chapter11. Sentence types and discourse function -- Chapter12. Pro-forms and ellipsis -- Chapter13. Coordination -- Chapter14. The complex sentence -- Chapter15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses -- Chapter16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives -- Chapter17. The noun phrase -- Chapter18. Theme, focus and information processing -- Chapter19. From sentence to text.
Summary: With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which result in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation English and Language Studies GC PE 1106 .Q85 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000014063

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. The English Language -- Chapter2. A survey of English grammar -- Chapter3. Verbs and auxiliaries -- Chapter4. The semantics of the verb and phrases -- Chapter5. Nouns and determiners -- Chapter6. Pronouns and numerals -- Chapter7. Adjectives and adverbs -- Chapter8. The semantics and grammar of adverbials -- Chapter9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Chapter10. The simple sentences -- Chapter11. Sentence types and discourse function -- Chapter12. Pro-forms and ellipsis -- Chapter13. Coordination -- Chapter14. The complex sentence -- Chapter15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses -- Chapter16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives -- Chapter17. The noun phrase -- Chapter18. Theme, focus and information processing -- Chapter19. From sentence to text.

With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which result in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it.

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