A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar 2nd Edition by Rodney Huddleston, ISBN-13: 978-1009088015

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A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar 2nd Edition by Rodney Huddleston, ISBN-13: 978-1009088015

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• Publisher: ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (March 24, 2022)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎418 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1009088017
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1009088015

A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum’s earlier award-winning work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called ‘incorrect’ and show why those authorities are mistaken. Intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no background in grammar or linguistics, this teaching resource contains numerous exercises and online resources suitable for any course on the structure of English in either linguistics or English departments. A thoroughly modern undergraduate textbook, rewritten in an easy-to-read conversational style with a minimum of technical and theoretical terminology.

Table of Contents:

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface for the Student

Preface for the Instructor

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 The English Language

1.2 Describing and Advising

1.3 The Structure of Sentences

1.4 Investigation and Disconfirmation

Exercises on Chapter 1

2 Overview of the Book

2.1 Word Forms and Lexemes

2.2 Phrases and Clauses

2.3 Verbs and Verb Phrases

2.4 Complements in the Clause

2.5 Nouns and Noun Phrases

2.6 Adjectives and Adverbs

2.7 Prepositions

2.8 Adjuncts

2.9 Negation

2.10 Clause Type

2.11 Subordinate Clauses

2.12 Relative Constructions

2.13 Comparative and Superlative Constructions

2.14 Non-Finite Clauses

2.15 Coordination

2.16 Information Packaging

Appendix: Notational Conventions

Exercises on Chapter 2

3 Verbs and Verb Phrases

3.1 Verb Inflection

3.2 Auxiliary Verbs

3.3 Perfective and Imperfective Interpretations

3.4 Primary Tense: The Present and Preterite

3.5 Secondary Tense: The Perfect

3.6 Progressive Aspect

3.7 Modality and the Modal System

Exercises on Chapter 3

4 Complements in Clauses

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Subject

4.3 The Object

4.4 Predicative Complements

4.5 Overview of Complementation in VPs

Exercises on Chapter 4

5 Nouns and Determinatives

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Number and Countability

5.3 Determiners and Determinatives

5.4 Complements in NP Structure

5.5 Internal Modifiers in Nominals

5.6 External Modifiers

5.7 The Fused-Head Construction

5.8 Pronouns

5.9 Genitive Case

Exercises on Chapter 5

6 Adjectives and Adverbs

6.1 Adjectives

6.2 Adverbs

Exercises on Chapter 6

7 Prepositions and Particles

7.1 The Traditional Category of Prepositions

7.2 Extending the Preposition Category

7.3 Further Category Contrasts

7.4 Grammaticized Uses of Prepositions

7.5 Preposition Stranding

7.6 The Structure of PPs

7.7 PP Complements in Clause Structure

7.8 Prepositional Idioms and Fossilization

Exercises on Chapter 7

8 Adjuncts: Modifiers and Supplements

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Manner, Means, and Instrument

8.3 Act-Related Adjuncts

8.4 Space and Time

8.5 Degree

8.6 Purpose, Reason, and Result

8.7 Concessives

8.8 Conditionals

8.9 Four Other Clause-Modifying Adjuncts

8.10 Connective Adjuncts

8.11 Supplements

Exercises on Chapter 8

9 Negation

9.1 Negative and Positive Clauses

9.2 Subclausal Negation

9.3 Clausal Negation

9.4 Non-Affirmative Items

9.5 Scope of Negation

Exercises on Chapter 9

10 Clause Type

10.1 Speech Acts and Types of Clause

10.2 Interrogatives and Questions

10.3 Exclamatives

10.4 Imperatives and Directives

10.5 Performative Use of Speech Act Verbs

10.6 Minor Clause Types

Exercises on Chapter 10

11 Subordinate Clauses

11.1 Subordination

11.2 Clause Type in Content Clauses

11.3 Declarative Content Clauses

11.4 Interrogative Content Clauses

11.5 Exclamative Content Clauses

Exercises on Chapter 11

12 Relative Constructions

12.1 Relative Clauses as Modifiers in Nominals

12.2 Integrated versus Supplementary Relatives

12.3 Integrated and Supplementary Relative Words

12.4 Fused Relatives

12.5 A Relative Clause that Doesn’t Modify a Noun

Exercises on Chapter 12

13 Comparatives and Superlatives

13.1 Grade Inflection

13.2 More and Most

13.3 Less and Least

13.4 Comparison of Equality

13.5 Non-Scalar Comparison

13.6 Comparative Clauses

Exercises on Chapter 13

14 Non-Finite Clauses

14.1 Finite and Non-Finite Clauses

14.2 The Form and Meaning of Non-Finite Clauses

14.3 The Functions of Non-Finite Clauses

14.4 Transparent Verbs and Raised Subjects

14.5 Verbless Clauses

Exercises on Chapter 14

15 Coordinations

15.1 The Structure of Coordinations

15.2 Distinctive Syntactic Properties of Coordination

15.3 The Order of Coordinated Constituents

15.4 The Marking of Coordination

15.5 Layered Coordination

15.6 Main-Clause and Lower-Level Coordination

15.7 Joint versus Distributive Coordination

15.8 Non-Basic Coordination

Exercises on Chapter 15

16 Information Structure

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Passive Clauses

16.3 Extraposition

16.4 Existential Clauses

16.5 The It-Cleft Construction

16.6 Pseudo-Clefts

16.7 Dislocation: He’s clever, your dad

16.8 Preposing and Postposing

16.9 Reduction

Exercises on Chapter 16

Index

Rodney Huddleston was educated at Cambridge and Edinburgh, and taught English language at the University of Queensland for the majority of his career before beginning a decade of full-time work leading the team that produced The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) in 2002.

Geoffrey K. Pullum, a co-author of CGEL, was educated at York, Cambridge, and London, and has taught linguistics at University College London, the University of California, and the University of Edinburgh.

Brett Reynolds is a professor at Humber College, Toronto, specializing in academic English and the teaching of English as a second language.

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