The Cambridge grammar of the English language /

Huddleston, Rodney D.

The Cambridge grammar of the English language / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum in collaboration with Laurie Bauer ... [et al.]. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. - xvii, 1842 p. ; ill. ;

List of contributors
vi
Notational conventions x
Tree diagrams xiii
Preface xv
Preliminaries
1 (42)
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Rodney Huddleston
Syntactic overview
43 (28)
Rodney Huddleston
The verb
71 (142)
Rodney Huddleston
The clause: complements
213 (110)
Rodney Huddleston
Nouns and noun phrases
323 (202)
John Payne
Rodney Huddleston
Adjectives and adverbs
525 (72)
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Rodney Huddleston
Prepositions and preposition phrases
597 (66)
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Rodney Huddleston
The clause: adjuncts
663 (122)
Anita Mittwoch
Rodney Huddleston
Peter Collins
Negation
785 (66)
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Rodney Huddleston
Clause type and illocutionary force
851 (96)
Rodney Huddleston
Content clauses and reported speech
947 (84)
Rodney Huddleston
Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies
1031 (66)
Rodney Huddleston
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Peter Peterson
Comparative constructions
1097 (74)
Rodney Huddleston
Non-finite and verbless clauses
1171 (102)
Rodney Huddleston
Coordination and supplementation
1273 (90)
Rodney Huddleston
John Payne
Peter Peterson
Information packaging
1363 (86)
Gregory Ward
Betty Birner
Rodney Huddleston
Deixis and anaphora
1449 (116)
Lesley Stirling
Rodney Huddleston
Inflectional morphology and related matters
1565 (56)
Frank Palmer
Rodney Huddleston
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Lexical word-formation
1621 (102)
Laurie Bauer
Rodney Huddleston
Punctuation
1723 (42)
Geoffrey Nunberg
Ted Briscoe
Rodney Huddleston
Further reading 1765 (14)
Index 1779 (1)
Lexical index 1780 (33)
Conceptual index 1813


Publisher description: This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a way that is accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics. It is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts, together with justification for the ways in which the analysis differs from traditional grammar. The book contains twenty chapters and a guide to further reading. Its usefulness is enhanced by diagrams of sentence structure, cross-references between sections, a comprehensive index, and user-friendly design and typography throughout

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