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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