Mastering English
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Mastering English

An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Mastering English

An Advanced Grammar for Non-native and Native Speakers

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9783110155358
eBook ISBN
9783110803181
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Part I
  2. Chapter 1: Preliminaries
  3. 1.1. Goals and framework
  4. 1.2. Organization
  5. 1.3. Data
  6. 1.4. Varieties of English
  7. 1.5. Standard English
  8. 1.6. Grammatical variation
  9. 1.7. Variation according to medium
  10. 1.8. English for Special Purposes
  11. Chapter 2: An introduction to syntax
  12. 2.1. The word
  13. 2.2. The sentence
  14. 2.3. Grammatical structure
  15. 2.4. Linearity and the principle of proximity
  16. 2.5. Constituency
  17. 2.6. Linguistic creativity and ambiguity
  18. 2.7. Competence and performance
  19. 2.8. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
  20. 2.9. Recapitulation
  21. Chapter 3: Elementary sentence analysis
  22. 3.1. The basic form and function approach
  23. 3.2. Sentence functions and sentence structures
  24. 3.3. The internal structure of complex forms
  25. Chapter 4: Advanced sentence analysis
  26. 4.1. Stacking
  27. 4.2. Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms
  28. 4.3. Complex predicators
  29. 4.4. The top of the tree
  30. 4.5. Vocatives, interjections and dislocation
  31. 4.6. A final word on advanced sentence analysis
  32. Part II
  33. Chapter 5: Constituent order
  34. 5.1. Introduction
  35. 5.2. Functions of constituent order
  36. 5.3. Inversion
  37. 5.4. Constituent order in subordinate clauses
  38. 5.5. Position and order of adverbials
  39. 5.6. Discontinuity
  40. Chapter 6: Coordination and subordination
  41. 6.1. Introduction
  42. 6.2. Coordination
  43. 6.3. Subordination
  44. 6.4. Markers of clausal subordination
  45. Chapter 7: The simple sentence
  46. 7.1. Introduction: simple and complex sentences
  47. 7.2. Referential properties: situations
  48. 7.3. Participant roles
  49. 7.4. Voice
  50. 7.5. Polarity
  51. 7.6. Subject-predicator concord
  52. 7.7. Other types of external concord
  53. Chapter 8: The complex sentence
  54. 8.1. Introduction
  55. 8.2. Classification of subclauses
  56. 8.3. Subject clauses
  57. 8.4. Cleft sentences
  58. 8.5. Object clauses
  59. 8.6. Subject complement clauses
  60. 8.7. Indirect object clauses and object complement clauses
  61. 8.8. Adverbial clauses
  62. 8.9. Conditional clauses
  63. 8.10. Clausally realized disjuncts
  64. 8.11. Polarity in complex sentences
  65. Part III
  66. Chapter 9: Verbals
  67. 9.1. Introduction
  68. 9.2. Verb forms
  69. 9.3. The external relations of verbals
  70. 9.4. The internal structure of verb groups
  71. 9.5. Auxiliaries and their delimitation
  72. 9.6. Tense and aspect
  73. 9.7. Modal uses of tense-aspect forms
  74. 9.8. Mood
  75. 9.9. Modality
  76. Chapter 10: Nominals
  77. 10.1. Preliminaries
  78. 10.2. Categorization
  79. 10.3. Determination
  80. 10.4. Quantification: the number category
  81. Chapter 11: Pronominals
  82. 11.1. Preliminaries
  83. 11.2. Central pronouns
  84. 11.3. Pronouns without a person distinction
  85. Chapter 12: Adjectivals and adverbals
  86. 12.1. Preliminary discussion of adjectivals
  87. 12.2. Adjectival modification and positional ordering
  88. 12.3. Comparison of adjectives
  89. 12.4. The substantival use of adjectives
  90. 12.5. Adverbals
  91. References
  92. Subject index
  93. Word index