Shakespeare's Grammar.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- The Author -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of symbols and abbreviations -- Acknowledgement -- INTRODUCTION -- 0.1 Abbott's Grammar and Shakespeare's Grammar -- 0.2 Using Shakespeare's Grammar: how to find things -- 0.3 Citation of texts: sources and conventions -- 0.4 Shakespeare's linguistic context -- 0.5 Further reading -- PART 1: THE NOUN PHRASE -- 1.0a Overview: The stylistics of noun phrase use -- 1.0b Overview: The structure of the noun phrase -- 1.1 Pre-head elements: Determiners -- 1.1.0 Overview -- 1.1.0a Articles -- 1.1.0b Demonstratives -- 1.1.0c Possessives -- 1.1.0d Interrogatives -- 1.1.0.e Quantifiers -- 1.1.0f Numerals -- 1.1.0g Ordinals -- 1.1.1 Development of determiners from adjectives -- 1.1.2 Determiners used in different combinations or in different senses -- 1.1.2a A/an in the sense of one/the same -- 1.1.2b Each/every/one for each of/every one of/none of -- 1.1.2c Each and everyone + noun treated as plurals -- 1.1.3 Deletion of determiners: the, a/an, possessives -- 1.1.3a Deletion of the -- 1.1.3b Deletion of possessive determiner -- 1.1.3c Deletion of a/an -- 1.1.4 Possession: 'genitive' constructions -- 1.1.4a Possessive pronouns -- 1.1.4b s-genitive -- 1.1.4c Of construction -- 1.1.4d Double genitive -- 1.1.4e Absolute genitive -- 1.1.4f Zero genitive -- 1.1.4g His genitive -- 1.1.4h Split genitive -- 1.1.4i Orthography -- 1.2 Pre-head elements: Modification -- 1.2.0 Overview -- 1.2.1 Placement of adjectival phrases -- 1.2.2 Adjectives: scope -- 1.2.2a Location of effect -- 1.2.2b Subjectivization -- 1.2.2c Passivized -- 1.2.3 Adjectives: comparative and superlative -- 1.2.4 Adjectival inflections -- 1.2.5 Adjectives: compound adjectives -- 1.2.6 Nouns as pre-modifiers -- 1.2.7 Verb forms as pre-modifiers -- 1.2.8 Other parts of speech as pre-modifiers (conversion).

1.2.9 Complex pre-modifying structures -- 1.3 The head -- 1.3.0 Overview -- 1.3.1 Nouns: plural inflections -- 1.3.2 Pronouns -- 1.3.2.0 Overview -- 1.3.2a First person singular pronouns -- 1.3.2b Second person singular pronouns -- 1.3.2c Third person singular pronouns -- 1.3.2d First person plural pronouns -- 1.3.2e Second person plural pronouns -- 1.3.2f Third person plural pronouns -- 1.3.2g Anomalous pronouns -- 1.3.2h Reflexive pronouns -- 1.3.2i Dative pronouns (ethical dative) -- 1.3.2j Pronouns as nouns -- 1.3.3 Adjectives as heads of noun phrases -- 1.3.4 Determiners as heads of noun phrases -- 1.3.5 -ing forms as heads of noun phrase -- 1.4 Post-head elements -- 1.4.0 Overview -- 1.4.1 Prepositional phrases -- 1.4.2 Relative clauses -- 1.4.2a Who relatives -- 1.4.2b Which relatives -- 1.4.2c That relatives -- 1.4.2d Zero relatives -- 1.4.2e Relative pronoun/conjunctive but -- 1.4.2f Determiners as antecedents of relatives -- 1.4.2g Head-shifted relatives -- 1.4.2h Headless relatives -- 1.4.2i Relative pronouns and verb agreement -- 1.4.3 Noun phrases as post-head modification (apposition) -- 1.4.4 Postpositive adjectival phrases -- PART 2: THE VERB PHRASE -- 2.0a Overview: The stylistics of verb phrase use -- 2.0b Overview: The structure of the verb phrase -- 2.1 The verb phrase head -- 2.1.0 Overview -- 2.1.1 Main auxiliary verbs -- 2.1.1a Have and be -- 2.1.1b Do -- 2.1.2 Modal verbs -- 2.1.2a Can/could -- 2.1.2b May/might -- 2.1.2c Must -- 2.1.2d Shall/should -- 2.1.2e Will/would, will/shall -- 2.1.3 Tense and time -- 2.1.3a Present time -- 2.1.3b Past time -- 2.1.3c Future time -- 2.1.3d Mixed tense forms -- 2.1.4 Aspect -- 2.1.4a Simple past for present perfect -- 2.1.5 Mood -- 2.1.5a Indicative -- 2.1.5b Subjunctive -- 2.1.5c Imperative -- 2.1.6 Finite versus non-finite -- 2.1.7 Voice: active/passive, agency -- 2.1.8 Verb morphology.

2.1.8a Present tense morphology -- 2.1.8b Past tense morphology -- 2.1.8c Participles -- 2.1.8d Infinitive marking -- 2.1.9 Negation -- 2.2 Beyond the head -- 2.2.0 Overview -- 2.2.1 Subjects and agents -- 2.2.2 Objects: direct and indirect -- 2.2.3 Complements -- 2.2.4 Adverbials -- Glossary -- List of references to Shakespeare's works -- Index.

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