Andreea S. Calude, Laurie Bauer

Mysteries of English Grammar (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Complexities of the English Language

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates some of the complexities of the grammar of English, the areas where new discoveries await and why it matters. Both aimed at the interested general reader and the beginning student of English language and linguistics, this is a fresh take on grammar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000451726
• Artikelnr.: 62408856

Autorenporträt

Andreea S. Calude is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has a background in mathematics and linguistics and researches (spoken) grammar, language evolution, loanwords and just about any quantitative language-related question she can get data on. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Te Reo - the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand and the co-editor of Questions About Language, with Laurie Bauer (2020).

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Preface
1 Introduction
2. What you must say, what you can say and what you do not say: Grammar and
norm
3. Over and out: Prepositions
4. You'll never get nowhere: Double negatives
5. All the way from the Ukraine: The definite article
6. A large amount of exceptions: Countability
7. The author has finished this chapter last year: The present perfect
8. An even more interestinger topic: Comparatives and superlatives
9. I'm lovin' it: The progressive
10. The good, the bad and the ugly: Adjectives
11. What it is is a nonstandard feature: Double be construction
12. Human dogs and inhuman people: Gender and related matters
13. The chapter that I put too many pronouns in it: Shadow pronouns
14. There's heaps of money to be won: Number agreement
15. Because I'm worth it: Insubordinate clauses
16. They are cleverer than she and I: Pronominal case
17. Is that your wife again?: Possession
18. Conclusion
Glossary: Language for language
Index