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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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