Navigating English Grammar
A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Published on 9. July 2013
304 pages
978-1-118-34023-3 (ISBN)
Description
An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it.
* Presents a novel, inquiry-based approach to understanding speakers' unconscious knowledge of English grammar
* Makes lucid connections, when relevant, with current linguistic theory
* Integrates language change and variation into the study of grammar
* Examines historical sources of socially evaluative perceptions of grammar, as 'good' or 'bad', and notions of language authority
* Provides syntactic explanations for many modern punctuation rules
* Explores some of the current controversies about grammar teaching in school and the role of Standard English in testing and assessment
Reviews / Votes
"Navigating English Grammar is a superb introduction toEnglish grammar and grammatical analysis. Lobeck and Denham guidereaders through the essentials of English with vivid, up-to-dateusage examples and just the right amount of clearly explainedlinguistic theory." - Edwin Battistella, SouthernOregon University "Lobeck and Denham make a plausible Socrates, proddingtheir interlocutors into discovering their own, internal languagesystem. Readers learn much about scientific methods, honed byyears working in schools and understanding adolescent minds, andare liberated from foolish social judgments about people'slanguage." - David Lightfoot, GeorgetownUniversityMore details
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Persons
Anne Lobeck is Professor of English and Linguistics atWestern Washington University. She is author of Ellipsis:Functional Heads, Licensing and Identification (1995) andDiscovering Grammar: An Introduction to English SentenceStructure (2000), and is coeditor and co-author (withKristin Denham) of several books, including Linguistics atSchool: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education(2010).
Kristin Denham is Professor of English and Linguistics atWestern Washington University. She is coeditor (with Anne Lobeck)of two volumes, including Language in the Schools: IntegratingLinguistic Knowledge into K-12 Teaching (2005) and co-author(with Anne Lobeck) of Linguistics for Everyone: AnIntroduction (2010).
Content
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 What is Grammar and How Do We Study It? 1
2 Nouns 23
3 Noun Phrases 41
4 Verbs 67
5 Verb Phrases 85
6 The Clause 113
7 Adjectives 147
8 Adverbs 171
9 Prepositions and Particles 187
10 Independent, Coordinate, and Subordinate Clauses 209
11 More on Complementation and Modification 243
Epilogue: Navigating Real Language 273
Index 275
