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100 1 _aBrown, Keith.
245 1 2 _aA Critical Account of English Syntax :
_bGrammar, Meaning, Text.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (307 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aEdinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced Series
505 0 _aCover -- A Critical Account of English Syntax -- Contents -- Introduction -- Organisation and content -- Why study the grammar of English -- What counts as the grammar of English -- The data -- Grammaticality -- Grammaticality and acceptability -- Grammaticality and intuition -- Grammaticality and power -- Grammaticality: descriptive and prescriptive grammar -- Grammaticality and language change -- Adjectives and adjective phrases -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: introduction -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and denotation -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and gradability -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as heads of noun phrases -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as a word class -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjective positions in noun phrases -- Adjectives and adjective phrases: reduplication -- Adverbs and adverb phrases -- Adverbs and adverb phrases: introduction -- Adverbs and adverb phrases: adverbs and adjectives -- Adverbs and adverb phrases: structure of adverb phrases -- Adverbial clauses -- Adverbial clauses: introduction -- Adverbial clauses: time, condition, reason, concession -- Adverbial clauses: less common types -- Adverbial clauses: position in clauses and sentences -- Adverbial clauses: spoken English -- Adverbial clauses: subordinate clause or main clause -- Clause and text -- Clause and text: introduction -- Clause and text: clefts -- IT clefts -- WH clefts -- Reverse WH clefts -- TH clefts -- Clause and text: cohesion -- Cohesion: orientation -- Cohesion: orientation in place -- Cohesion: orientation in time -- Cohesion: orientation in time: tense and aspect -- Cohesion: co-reference and referent tracking -- Cohesion: coordination and subordination -- Cohesion: adverbials and conjunctions -- Clause and text: cohesion - active, passive, middle.
505 8 _aClause and text: discourse markers -- Clause and text: ellipsis -- Clause and text: focus -- Clause and text: focus: special syntactic constructions -- Clause and text: focus: word order -- Clause and text: given and new -- Clause and text: non-finite clauses -- Clause and text: spoken and written text -- Clause and text: theme -- Clause structure -- Clause structure: introduction -- Clause structure: constituents -- Transposition -- Substitution -- Coordination -- Clause structure: dependency relations -- Clause structure: hierarchical structure -- Clause structure: linearity and predicate-argument structure -- Clause structure: linearity and grammatical functions -- Clause structure: verb phrases -- Clause structure: integrated and unintegrated syntax -- Clefts -- Clauses: clefts -- Complement clauses -- Complement clauses: complementisers -- Complement clauses: embedded interrogatives -- Complement clauses: mood and modality -- Complement clauses: gerunds, infinitives and meaning -- Complement clauses: noun complement clauses -- Constructions -- Constructions: overview -- Non-finite clauses -- Non-finite clauses: introduction -- Non-finite clauses: infinitives -- Non-finite clauses: free participles -- Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 1) -- Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 2) -- Non-finite clauses: reduced adverbials -- Non-finite clauses: reduced relatives -- Non-finite clauses: verb stem -- Non-finite clauses: with + NP -- Non-finite clauses: eight types or four -- Nouns and noun phrases -- Nouns and noun phrases: introduction -- Nouns and noun phrases: common and proper -- Nouns and noun phrases: count and mass -- Countability: individuals and substances -- Partitives -- Number and agreement -- Nouns and noun phrases: determinatives -- Nouns and noun phrases: pronouns -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases.
505 8 _aPrepositions and prepositional phrases: introduction -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and particles -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions, transitive and intransitive -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional phrases, their distribution -- Complements of verbs -- Complements (or postmodifiers) of nouns -- Complements (or postmodifiers) of adjectives -- Complements of prepositions -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and meaning -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional verbs -- Relative clauses -- Relative clauses: introduction -- Relative clauses: contact -- Relative clauses: free -- Relative clauses: infinitival -- Relative clauses: non-standard -- Relative clauses: propositional -- Relative clauses: restrictive and non-restrictive -- Relative clauses: shadow pronouns -- Relative clauses: th -- Relative clauses: unattached -- Relative clauses: unintegrated -- Relative clauses: wh -- Relative clauses: wh words as deictics -- Relative clauses: which as discourse connective -- Sentences and clauses -- Sentences and clauses: introduction -- Sentences and clauses: clauses -- Sentences and clauses: complex sentences -- Sentences and clauses: compound sentences -- Sentences and clauses: main and subordinate clauses -- Sentences and clauses: sentence fragments -- Sentences and clauses: simple sentences -- Sentences and clauses: subordinate clauses: preposition or complementiser -- Sentences and clauses: system sentence and text sentence -- Verbs and verb phrases -- Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect: introduction -- Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect in English -- Verbs and verb phrases: future tense -- Verbs and verb phrases: middle construction -- Verbs and verb phrases: mood and modality -- Verbs and verb phrases: passive voice.
505 8 _aVerbs and verb phrases: present perfect and adverbs -- Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and resultative -- Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and simple past -- Verbs and verb phrases: progressive aspect -- Verbs and verb phrases: simple present -- Verbs and verb phrases: situation (lexical) aspect -- Word classes -- Word classes: introduction -- Word classes: major and minor -- Word classes: gradience -- Word classes: criteria -- Word classes: semantics -- Word classes: syntactic criteria and sub-classes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aNo detailed description available for "A Critical Account of English Syntax".
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aEnglish language--Syntax.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aMiller, Jim.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBrown, Keith
_tA Critical Account of English Syntax
_dEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2016
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797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aEdinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced Series
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