Downing, Angela.
English Grammar. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (631 pages)
Cover -- ENGLISH GRAMMAR -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Table of notational symbols -- 1 Basic concepts -- Module 1 Language and meaning -- Module 2 Linguistic forms and syntactic functions -- Module 3 Negation and expansion -- Exercises -- 2 The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause Structure -- Module 4: Syntactic elements and structures of the clause -- Module 5: Subject and Predicator -- Module 6: Direct, Indirect and Prepositional Objects -- Module 7: Subject and Object Complements -- Module 8: Adjuncts -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 3 The development of the message: Complementation of the verb -- INTRODUCTION: MAJOR COMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS AND VALENCY -- Module 9: Intransitive and copular patterns -- Module 10: Transitive patterns -- Module 11: Complementation by finite clauses -- Module 12: Complementation by non-finite clauses -- Summary of major verb complementation patterns -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 4 Conceptualising patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances -- Module 13: Conceptualising experiences expressed as situation types -- Module 14: Material processes of doing and happening -- Module 15: Causative processes -- Module 16: Processes of transfer -- Module 17: Conceptualising what we think, perceive and feel -- Module 18: Relational processes of being and becoming -- Module 19: Processes of saying, behaving and existing -- Module 20: Expressing attendant circumstances -- Module 21: Conceptualising experiences from a different angle: Nominalisation and grammatical metaphor -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 5 Interaction between speaker and hearer: Linking speech acts and grammar -- Module 22: Speech acts and clause types -- Module 23: The declarative and interrogative clause types. Module 24: The exclamative and imperative clause types -- Module 25: Indirect speech acts, clause types and discourse functions -- Module 26: Questions, clause types and discourse functions -- Module 27: Directives: getting people to carry out actions -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 6 Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause -- Module 28: Theme: the point of departure of the message -- Module 29: The distribution and focus of information -- Module 30: The interplay of Theme-Rheme and Given-New -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 7 Expanding the message: Clause combinations -- Module 31: Clause combining -- Module 32: Types of relationship between clauses -- Module 33: Elaborating the message -- Module 34: Extending the message -- Module 35: Enhancing the message -- Module 36: Reporting speech and thought -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 8 Talking about events: The Verbal Group -- Module 37: Expressing our experience of events -- Module 38: Basic structures of the Verbal Group -- Module 39: Organising our experience of events -- Module 40: The semantics of phrasal verbs -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 9 Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality -- Module 41: Expressing location in time through the verb: tense -- Module 42: Past events and present time connected: Present Perfect and Past Perfect -- Module 43: Situation types and the Progressive aspect -- Module 44: Expressing attitudes towards the event: modality -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 10 Talking about people and things: The Nominal Group -- Module 45: Expressing our experience of people and things -- Module 46: Referring to people and things as definite, indefinite, generic -- Module 47: Selecting and particularising the referent: determiner -- Module 48: Describing and classifying the referent: the pre-modifier. Module 49: Identifying and elaborating the referent: the post-modifier -- Module 50: Noun complement clauses -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 11 Describing persons, things and circumstances: Adjectival and Adverbial groups -- Module 51: Adjectives and the adjectival group -- Module 52: Degrees of comparison and intensification -- Module 53: Complementation of the adjective -- Module 54: Adverbs and the adverbial group -- Module 55: Syntactic functions of adverbs and adverbial groups -- Module 56: Modification and complementation in the adverbial group -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 12 Spatial, temporal and other relationships: The Prepositional Phrase -- Module 57: Prepositions and the Prepositional Phrase (PP) -- Module 58: Syntactic functions of the Prepositional Phrase -- Module 59: Semantic features of the Prepositional Phrase -- Module 60: Stranded Prepositions -- Discontinuous prepositional phrases -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Answer Key -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Presenting the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies, this book illustrates grammatical usage through authentic texts from a range of sources, both spoken and written. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and redesigned to include many new texts and examples of language in use. Key features include: chapters divided into modules of class-length materials; a wide variety of authentic texts and transcriptions to illustrate points of grammar and to contextualise structure; clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision; exercises and topics for individual study; answer key for analytical exercises; comprehensive index; select biography; suggestions for further reading; and a companion website. This up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, and is particularly suited for those whose native language is not English.
9780203087640
Electronic books.
970.01
English Grammar. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (631 pages)
Cover -- ENGLISH GRAMMAR -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Table of notational symbols -- 1 Basic concepts -- Module 1 Language and meaning -- Module 2 Linguistic forms and syntactic functions -- Module 3 Negation and expansion -- Exercises -- 2 The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause Structure -- Module 4: Syntactic elements and structures of the clause -- Module 5: Subject and Predicator -- Module 6: Direct, Indirect and Prepositional Objects -- Module 7: Subject and Object Complements -- Module 8: Adjuncts -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 3 The development of the message: Complementation of the verb -- INTRODUCTION: MAJOR COMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS AND VALENCY -- Module 9: Intransitive and copular patterns -- Module 10: Transitive patterns -- Module 11: Complementation by finite clauses -- Module 12: Complementation by non-finite clauses -- Summary of major verb complementation patterns -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 4 Conceptualising patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances -- Module 13: Conceptualising experiences expressed as situation types -- Module 14: Material processes of doing and happening -- Module 15: Causative processes -- Module 16: Processes of transfer -- Module 17: Conceptualising what we think, perceive and feel -- Module 18: Relational processes of being and becoming -- Module 19: Processes of saying, behaving and existing -- Module 20: Expressing attendant circumstances -- Module 21: Conceptualising experiences from a different angle: Nominalisation and grammatical metaphor -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 5 Interaction between speaker and hearer: Linking speech acts and grammar -- Module 22: Speech acts and clause types -- Module 23: The declarative and interrogative clause types. Module 24: The exclamative and imperative clause types -- Module 25: Indirect speech acts, clause types and discourse functions -- Module 26: Questions, clause types and discourse functions -- Module 27: Directives: getting people to carry out actions -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 6 Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause -- Module 28: Theme: the point of departure of the message -- Module 29: The distribution and focus of information -- Module 30: The interplay of Theme-Rheme and Given-New -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 7 Expanding the message: Clause combinations -- Module 31: Clause combining -- Module 32: Types of relationship between clauses -- Module 33: Elaborating the message -- Module 34: Extending the message -- Module 35: Enhancing the message -- Module 36: Reporting speech and thought -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 8 Talking about events: The Verbal Group -- Module 37: Expressing our experience of events -- Module 38: Basic structures of the Verbal Group -- Module 39: Organising our experience of events -- Module 40: The semantics of phrasal verbs -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 9 Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality -- Module 41: Expressing location in time through the verb: tense -- Module 42: Past events and present time connected: Present Perfect and Past Perfect -- Module 43: Situation types and the Progressive aspect -- Module 44: Expressing attitudes towards the event: modality -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 10 Talking about people and things: The Nominal Group -- Module 45: Expressing our experience of people and things -- Module 46: Referring to people and things as definite, indefinite, generic -- Module 47: Selecting and particularising the referent: determiner -- Module 48: Describing and classifying the referent: the pre-modifier. Module 49: Identifying and elaborating the referent: the post-modifier -- Module 50: Noun complement clauses -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 11 Describing persons, things and circumstances: Adjectival and Adverbial groups -- Module 51: Adjectives and the adjectival group -- Module 52: Degrees of comparison and intensification -- Module 53: Complementation of the adjective -- Module 54: Adverbs and the adverbial group -- Module 55: Syntactic functions of adverbs and adverbial groups -- Module 56: Modification and complementation in the adverbial group -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 12 Spatial, temporal and other relationships: The Prepositional Phrase -- Module 57: Prepositions and the Prepositional Phrase (PP) -- Module 58: Syntactic functions of the Prepositional Phrase -- Module 59: Semantic features of the Prepositional Phrase -- Module 60: Stranded Prepositions -- Discontinuous prepositional phrases -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Answer Key -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Presenting the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies, this book illustrates grammatical usage through authentic texts from a range of sources, both spoken and written. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and redesigned to include many new texts and examples of language in use. Key features include: chapters divided into modules of class-length materials; a wide variety of authentic texts and transcriptions to illustrate points of grammar and to contextualise structure; clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision; exercises and topics for individual study; answer key for analytical exercises; comprehensive index; select biography; suggestions for further reading; and a companion website. This up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, and is particularly suited for those whose native language is not English.
9780203087640
Electronic books.
970.01
Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education
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Lee Yan Fong Library
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