Mastering English
An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2010
XIV, 538 pages
978-3-11-080318-1 (ISBN)
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Carl Bache | Niels Davidsen-Nielsen
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An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers
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An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers
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Content
- Intro
- Part I
- Chapter 1: Preliminaries
- 1.1. Goals and framework
- 1.2. Organization
- 1.3. Data
- 1.4. Varieties of English
- 1.5. Standard English
- 1.6. Grammatical variation
- 1.7. Variation according to medium
- 1.8. English for Special Purposes
- Chapter 2: An introduction to syntax
- 2.1. The word
- 2.2. The sentence
- 2.3. Grammatical structure
- 2.4. Linearity and the principle of proximity
- 2.5. Constituency
- 2.6. Linguistic creativity and ambiguity
- 2.7. Competence and performance
- 2.8. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
- 2.9. Recapitulation
- Chapter 3: Elementary sentence analysis
- 3.1. The basic form and function approach
- 3.2. Sentence functions and sentence structures
- 3.3. The internal structure of complex forms
- Chapter 4: Advanced sentence analysis
- 4.1. Stacking
- 4.2. Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms
- 4.3. Complex predicators
- 4.4. The top of the tree
- 4.5. Vocatives, interjections and dislocation
- 4.6. A final word on advanced sentence analysis
- Part II
- Chapter 5: Constituent order
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Functions of constituent order
- 5.3. Inversion
- 5.4. Constituent order in subordinate clauses
- 5.5. Position and order of adverbials
- 5.6. Discontinuity
- Chapter 6: Coordination and subordination
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Coordination
- 6.3. Subordination
- 6.4. Markers of clausal subordination
- Chapter 7: The simple sentence
- 7.1. Introduction: simple and complex sentences
- 7.2. Referential properties: situations
- 7.3. Participant roles
- 7.4. Voice
- 7.5. Polarity
- 7.6. Subject-predicator concord
- 7.7. Other types of external concord
- Chapter 8: The complex sentence
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Classification of subclauses
- 8.3. Subject clauses
- 8.4. Cleft sentences
- 8.5. Object clauses
- 8.6. Subject complement clauses
- 8.7. Indirect object clauses and object complement clauses
- 8.8. Adverbial clauses
- 8.9. Conditional clauses
- 8.10. Clausally realized disjuncts
- 8.11. Polarity in complex sentences
- Part III
- Chapter 9: Verbals
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Verb forms
- 9.3. The external relations of verbals
- 9.4. The internal structure of verb groups
- 9.5. Auxiliaries and their delimitation
- 9.6. Tense and aspect
- 9.7. Modal uses of tense-aspect forms
- 9.8. Mood
- 9.9. Modality
- Chapter 10: Nominals
- 10.1. Preliminaries
- 10.2. Categorization
- 10.3. Determination
- 10.4. Quantification: the number category
- Chapter 11: Pronominals
- 11.1. Preliminaries
- 11.2. Central pronouns
- 11.3. Pronouns without a person distinction
- Chapter 12: Adjectivals and adverbals
- 12.1. Preliminary discussion of adjectivals
- 12.2. Adjectival modification and positional ordering
- 12.3. Comparison of adjectives
- 12.4. The substantival use of adjectives
- 12.5. Adverbals
- References
- Subject index
- Word index
