The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Rodney D. Huddleston (Author), Geoffrey K. Pullum (Author)
Publisher description: This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a way that is accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics. It is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts, together with justification for the ways in which the analysis differs from traditional grammar. The book contains twenty chapters and a guide to further reading. Its usefulness is enhanced by diagrams of sentence structure, cross-references between sections, a comprehensive index, and user-friendly design and typography throughout
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1 online resource (xvii, 1842 pages) : illustrations
9781316423530, 9781316958124, 1316423530, 1316958124
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Preliminaries / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston
Syntactic overview ; The verb ; The clause : complements / Rodney Huddleston
Nouns and noun phrases / John Payne and Robert Huddleston
Adjectives and adverbs ; Prepositions and preposition phrases / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston
The clause : adjuncts / Anita Mittwoch, Rodney Huddleston, and Peter Collins
Negation / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston
Clause type and illocutionary force ; Content clauses and reported speech / Rodney Huddleston
Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Peter Peterson
Comparative constructions ; Non-finite and verbless clauses / Rodney Huddleston
Coordination and supplementation / Rodney Huddleston, John Payne, and Peter Peterson
Information packaging / Gregory Ward, Betty Birner, and Rodney Huddleston
Deixis and anaphora / Lesley Stirling and Rodney Huddleston
Inflectional morphology and related matters / Frank Palmer, Rodney Huddleston, and Geoffrey K. Pullum
Lexical word-formation / Laurie Bauer and Rodney Huddleston
Punctuation / Geoffrey Nunberg, Ted Briscoe, and Rodney Huddleston