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Providing a complete and detailed overview of English Syntax, this
book offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence
structure and syntactic argument. Clear and comprehensive, it
contains a wealth of material to support readers in consolidating
their learning and cementing their knowledge at every step.
Features of the sixth edition include: - fully updated chapters -
refreshed learning materials - a fully updated glossary, list of
reference works, and bibliography Equipped with key concept lists,
exercises and further reading suggestions in each chapter, as well
as a detailed answer key at the end of the book, this highly
accessible and supportive text covers all the topics needed for a
confident understanding of this subject area.
Written by Bas Aarts, one of Britain's leading grammarians, Oxford
Modern English Grammar is a brand new and definitive guide to
English grammar. This indispensable handbook covers both British
and American English, and makes use of authentic spoken and written
examples.
Packed with tables, diagrams, and numerous example sentences, and
assuming no prior knowledge of grammatical concepts on the part of
the reader, this volume offers an unmatched guide to the structure
of contemporary English. Arranged in three clear parts for ease of
use, the Grammar's comprehensive coverage ranges from the very
basic--such as word structure, simple and complex phrases, and
clause types--to the more sophisticated topics that lie at the
intersection of grammar and meaning, including tense and aspect,
mood and modality, and information structuring. How do words formed
by "compounding" differ from words formed by "conversion"? How many
verbs in English can take a declarative clause functioning as
direct object (ie, "decide that..." or "believe that...")? What is
the relationship between a matrix clause and a subordinate clause?
What is the present futurate? The past futurate? The present
perfect? How does the grammar of English encode such semantic
notions as "possibility," "probability," "necessity," "obligation,"
"permission," "intention," or "ability"? Aarts answers all these
questions, clearly and engagingly, deeply enriching the reader's
understanding of the English language.
Oxford Modern English Grammar will be invaluable for those with an
interest in the English language, undergraduate students of all
disciplines, and for anyone who would like a clear guide to English
grammar and how to use it.
Would you like to expand your range of practical strategies for
teaching grammar? Are you looking for new tactics to help engage
your students, particularly in light of the curriculum's increased
focus on grammar? Would you value the opportunity to refresh your
own depth of understanding of grammar? If so, then How To Teach
Grammar is written for you! Combining detailed grammatical
knowledge with practical classroom strategies, and catering for
both experienced and trainee teachers, this is the teaching
professional's guide to English grammar. The author team draws on
their own extensive subject knowledge and classroom experience,
equipping readers with valuable guidance and useful strategies for
How To Teach Grammar successfully in schools today.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
Providing a complete and detailed overview of English Syntax, this
book offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence
structure and syntactic argument. Clear and comprehensive, it
contains a wealth of material to support readers in consolidating
their learning and cementing their knowledge at every step.
Features of the sixth edition include: - fully updated chapters -
refreshed learning materials - a fully updated glossary, list of
reference works, and bibliography Equipped with key concept lists,
exercises and further reading suggestions in each chapter, as well
as a detailed answer key at the end of the book, this highly
accessible and supportive text covers all the topics needed for a
confident understanding of this subject area.
This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current
research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language.
Following an introduction from the editors, the volume's expert
contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar,
beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters
in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to
grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative
approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which
comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar,
including compounds, phrase structure, clause types, tense and
aspect, and information structure. Part IV offers coverage of the
relationship between grammar and other fields - lexis, phonology,
meaning, and discourse - while the concluding part of the book
investigates grammatical change over time, regional variation, and
genre and literary variation. The handbook's wide-ranging coverage
will appeal to researchers and students of English language and
linguistics from undergraduate level upwards.
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and
accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology
of English grammar. It contains over 1,600 entries with clear and
concise definitions, enhanced by numerous example sentences, as
well as relevant quotations from the scholarly literature of the
field. This second edition is written and edited by Professor Bas
Aarts of University College London, writer of the acclaimed Oxford
Modern English Grammar. It has been fully revised and updated, with
particular attention paid to refreshing the example sentences
included within the text. There are over 150 new entries that cover
current terminology which has arisen since the publication of the
first edition, and there are also new entries on the most important
English grammars published since the start of the 20th century.
Hundreds of new cross-references enhance the user-friendly nature
of the text, and the list of works cited has been thoroughly
updated to reflect the current state of the field. A short appendix
of web links has been added. All in all, this Dictionary is an
invaluable guide to English grammar for all students and teachers
of the subject, as well as all those with an informed interest in
the English language.
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research
carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers
from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken
and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays
particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating
short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions
of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is
essential reading for historians of the English language,
syntacticians and corpus linguists.
This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax,
conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in
English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and
examines how it may be defined and differentiated. Professor Aarts
addresses the tension between linguistic concepts and the
continuous phenomena they describe by testing and categorizing
grammatical vagueness and indeterminacy. He considers to what
extent gradience is a grammatical phenomenon or a by-product of
imperfect linguistic description, and makes a series of linked
proposals for its theoretical formalization.
Bas Aarts draws on, and reviews, work in psychology, philosophy
and language from Aristotle to Chomsky., and writes clearly on a
fascinating and important aspect of language and cognition. His
book will appeal to scholars and graduate students of language and
syntactic theory in departments of (English) linguistics,
philosophy and cognitive science.
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the
field sheds new light on the verb in English. The central concern
of the volume is to illustrate that verbs can only be adequately
and properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and
descriptive perspective. In part one, theoretical topics are
explored: terminological problems of classifying verbs and
verb-related elements, the 'determining' properties of verbs, verb
complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal
combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality.
In part two, computer corpora are used to study various types of
verb complements and collocations, to trace the development in
English of certain verb forms and to detail the usage of verbs in
different varieties and genres of English.
This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In Part One, the authors explore topics such as the terminological problems of classification, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality. In Part Two, computer corpora are used to study various types of verb complements and collocations, to trace the development in English of certain verb forms, and to detail the usage of verbs in different varieties and genres of English.
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research
carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers
from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken
and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays
particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating
short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions
of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is
essential reading for historians of the English language,
syntacticians and corpus linguists.
This book brings together classic and recent papers in the
philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, gradience
in meaning, word classes, and syntax. Issues such as how many
grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth,
have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and over the last two
decades been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as
well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational
linguistics. The work is designed to be of use to students in all
these fields. It has a substantial introduction, is divided into
thematic parts, contains annotated sections of further reading, and
is fully indexed.
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