Rodney Huddleston

Student's Introduction to English Grammar (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009092739
• Artikelnr.: 66177282

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.