An Introduction to English Syntax /

An Introduction to English Syntax / / Jim Miller.

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Miller, Jim,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language : ETELA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • For colleagues
  • Foreword to the second edition
  • Introduction
  • 1 Heads and modifiers
  • 2 Constituent structure
  • 3 Constructions
  • 4 Word classes
  • 5 The lexicon
  • 6 Clauses I
  • 7 Clauses II
  • 8 Clauses III
  • 9 Grammatical functions
  • 10 Syntactic linkage
  • 11 Heads and modifiers revisited
  • 12 Roles
  • 13 Clauses, sentences and text
  • 14 Syntax in discourse: aspect, tense, voice
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Appendix 4
  • Discussion of the exercises
  • Further reading
  • Index

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