Rodney Huddleston (University of Queensland), Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh), Brett Reynolds

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of the ground-breaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar, now reorganised to align fully with the award-winning reference work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. This edition has been rewritten in an easy-to-read conversational style with a minimum of technical and theoretical terminology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1162g
• ISBN-13: 9781316514641
• ISBN-10: 1316514641
• Artikelnr.: 62118383

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface for the student
Preface for the instructor
1. Introduction
2. Overview of the book
3. Verbs and verb phrases
4. Complements in clauses
5. Nouns and determinatives
6. Adjectives and adverbs
7. Prepositions and particles
8. Adjuncts: modifiers and supplements
9. Negation
10. Clause type
11. Subordinate clauses
12. Relative constructions
13. Comparatives and superlatives
14. Non-finite clauses
15. Coordinations
16. Information structure
Index.