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Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English |
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09.12.2009 18:11 |
- Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
- Based on the insights and discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and
- Written English, this new book brings fresh perspective to the study of English grammar.
- The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a pedagogical coursebook for
- advanced students at university or on teacher-training courses, and an invaluable reference
- grammar. It combines a comprehensive examination of grammatical structure with information
- about the how, when, and why of the English as it is really used. The Longman Student Grammar:
- examines patterns of use in news, fiction, academic, and spoken English
- takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact
- is based on an analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken
- corpus text
- uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points
- uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear
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- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions iv
- Grammar Bites in each chapter viii
- 1. Introduction: a discourse perspective on grammar
- 1.1 Introduction 2
- 1.2 A corpus-based grammar
- 1.3 More about language variation
- 1.4 More detail on the LSWE Corpus
- 1.5 Overview of the book
- 1.6 Conventions used in the book
- 2. Words and word classes
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 What are words?
- 2.3 Survey of lexical words
- 2.4 Survey of function words
- 2.5 Special classes of words
- 2.6 Word-class ambiguities
- 3. Introduction to phrases and clauses
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Phrases and their characteristics
- 3.3 Types of phrases
- 3.4 A preview of clause patterns
- 3.5 Clause elements
- 4. Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Main types of nouns
- 4.3 Proper nouns v. common nouns
- 4.4 Package nouns
- 4.5 Determiners
- 4.6 The articles
- 4.7 Other determiners
- 4.8 Number: singular and plural
- 4.9 Case: the genitive
- 4.10 Gender
- 4.11 The formation of derived nouns
- 4.12 Personal pronouns
- 4.13 Reflexive pronouns
- 4.14 Demonstrative pronouns
- 4.15 Indefinite pronouns
- 4.16 Other pronouns
- 5. Verbs
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Verb functions and classes
- 5.3 Semantic categories of lexical verbs
- 5.4 The most common lexical verbs
- 5.5 Regular and irregular verb endings
- 5.6 Verb formation
- 5.7 Valency patterns
- 5.8 Multi-word verbs: structure and meaning
- 5.9 Phrasal verbs
- 5.10 Prepositional verbs
- 5.11 Phrasal-prepositional verbs
- 5.12 Other multi-word verb constructions
- 5.13 Be
- 5.14 Have
- 5.15 Do
- 5.16 The copula be, and other copular verbs
- 5.17 Functions of copular verbs
- 6. Variation in the verb phrase: tense, aspect, voice, and modal use
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Tense and time distinctions: simple present and past tense
- 6.3 Perfect and progressive aspect
- 6.4 Perfect aspect in use
- 6.5 Progressive aspect
- 6.6 Active and passive voice
- 6.7 Associations between verbs and passive voice
- 6.8 Voice and aspect combinations
- 6.9 Modals and semi-modals
- 6.10 Personal and logical meanings of modals
- 6.11 Be going to and used to
- 6.12 Modals combined with aspect or voice
- 6.13 Sequences of modals and semi-modals
- 7. Adjectives and adverbs
- 7.1 introduction
- 7.2 Characteristics of adjectives
- 7.3 The formation of adjectives
- 7.4 The function of adverbs
- 7.5 The formation of adverbs
- 7.6 Semantic categories of adjectives
- 7.7 More about attributive adjectives
- 7.8 More about predicative adjectives
- 7.9 Other syntactic roles of adjectives
- 7.10 Syntactic roles of adverbs
- 7.11 Semantic categories of adverbs
- 7.12 Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
- 7.13 Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs
- 7.14 Comparative clauses and other degree complements
- 8. Exploring the grammar of the clause
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Devices of elaboration and condensation
- 8.3 Subordination and dependent clauses
- 8.4 Coordination
- 8.5 Ellipsis and structural condensation
- 8.6 The subject-verb concord rule
- 8.7 Verbs as operators
- 8.8 Negation
- 8.9 Major types of independent clause
- 8.10 Declarative clauses
- 8.11 Interrogative clauses
- 8.12 Exclamative clauses
- 8.13 Imperative clauses
- 8.14 Non-clausal material
- 8.15 Finite dependent clauses
- 8.16 Non-finite dependent clauses
- 8.17 Subjunctive verbs in dependent clauses
- 8.18 Dependent clauses with no main clause
- 9. Complex noun phrases
- 9-i Introduction
- 9.2 Survey of noun modifier type
- 9.3 Noun phrases with premodifiers and postmodifiers across registers
- 9.4 Types of premodifiers
- 9.5 Meaning relationships expressed by noun + noun sequences
- 9.6 Noun phrases with multiple premodifiers
- 9.7 Restrictive v. non-restrictive function
- 9.8 Postmodification by relative clauses
- 9.9 Postmodification by non-finite clauses
- 9.10 Postmodification by prepositional phrase
- 9.11 Postmodification by appositive noun phrases
- 9.iz Noun phrases with multiple postmodifiers
- 9.13 Noun complement clauses
- 9.14 Head nouns with noun complement clauses
- 10. Verb and adjective complement clauses
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Types of complement clauses
- 10.3 Grammatical positions of complement clauses
- 10.4 Discourse functions of that-clauses
- 10.5 Post-predicate f/iaf-clauses
- 10.6 Verbs controlling extraposed that-clauses
- 10.7 Tnat-clauses controlled by adjectives
- 10.8 Discourse choices with tbat-clauses
- 10.9 Structure and function of wh-clauses
- 10.10 Post-pre die ate wh-clauses controlled by verbs
- 10.11 Interrogative clauses with whet/ierand if
- 10.12 Overview of infinitive clauses
- 10.13 Post-predicate to-clauses controlled by verbs
- 10.14 Subject predicative to-clauses
- 10.15 Post-predicate to-clauses controlled by adjectives
- Ю.16 Raising
- 10.17 Extraposed to-clauses
- 10.18 Raising v. extraposition
- 10.19 To-clause types across registers
- 10.20 Overview of /Tig-clauses
- 10.21 Post-predicate /ng-clauses
- 10.22 Ellipsis and substitution in complement clauses
- 10.23 Choice of complement clause type
- 11. Adverbials
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The main classes of adverbials
- 11.3 Syntactic forms of adverbials
- 11.4 Positions of adverbials
- 11.5 The relationship between adverbials and other clause element
- 11.6 Semantic categories of circumstance adverbials
- 11.7 Extremely common circumstance adverbials in conversation
- 11.8 Positions of circumstance adverbials
- 11.9 Additional semantic categories of circumstance adverbial clauses
- 11.10 Syntactic forms of adverbial clauses
- 11.11 Positions of adverbial clauses
- 11.12 Subordinators with circumstance adverbial clauses
- 11.13 Semantic categories of stance adverbials
- 11.14 The most common stance adverbials
- 11.15 Positions of stance adverbials
- 11.16 Other discourse functions of stance adverbials
- 11.17 Semantic categories of linking adverbials
- 11.18 The most common linking adverbials in conversation and academic prose
- 11.19 Positions of linking adverbials
- 12. Word order choices
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Word order
- 12.3 Fronting
- 12.4 Inversion
- 12.5 Existential there
- 12.6 The verb in existential there clauses
- 12.7 The notional subject
- 12.8 Adverbials in existential clauses
- 12.9 Simple v. complex existential clauses
- 12.10 Discourse functions of existential clauses
- 12.11 Dislocation
- 12.12 Clefting
- 12.13 Word order choices after the verb
- 12.14 Summary: syntactic choices in conversation v. academic prose
- 13. The grammar of conversation
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The discourse circumstances of conversation
- 13.3 Performance phenomena in conversation
- 13.4 Non-clausal units
- 13.5 Ellipsis
- 13.6 Lexical bundles in speech
- 13.7 Inserts
- Glossary of terms
- A-Z list of irregular verbs
- Index 464
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