Jim Miller

An Introduction to English Syntax

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Produktbeschreibung

Revised edition of this successful introduction to English syntax.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780748633616
• ISBN-10: 0748633618
• Artikelnr.: 23609403

Autorenporträt

Jim Miller is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he had a personal chair in Linguistics and Spoken Language. He works on the syntax and discourse organisation of spoken and written language, grammar and semantics, standard and non-standard languages, and literacy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Heads and modifiers
2. Constituent structure
3. Constructions
4. Word classes
5. The Lexicon
6. Clauses and sentences
7. Clauses main and subordinate
8. Clauses finite and non-finite
9. Grammatical functions
10. Syntactic linkage
11. Heads and modifiers revisited
12. Roles
13. Clauses, sentences and text
14. Grammar and semantics: aspect, tense, voice
Discussion of the exercises
Further reading