An Introduction To English Sentence Structure International Student Edition

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521157307
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International Student Edition written by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113947572X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to English Sentence Structure written by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.

Author : Jon Jonz
Publisher : Equinox
ISBN 13 : 9781845531461
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to English Sentence Structure written by Jon Jonz and published by Equinox. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials of functionalism. The book starts from the premise that the structure of language reflects the structure of events in everyday experience. By contrast, grammars that are more structural in nature often begin with gross facts about language structure, such as the observation that clauses can be divided into subjects and predicates. The book's premise reflects the fundamental Hallidayan principle that language simultaneously codes for three dimensions of structure: clause as representation, clause as exchange, and clause as message. This approach has the effect of situating the study of language in the student's familiar world of ideas, relationships, and discourses. The book blends insights from three prominent modern schools of grammatical thought (functionalism, structuralism, and generativism) using functionalism as the philosophical and organizational motif. The book focuses on the representational function of language, encouraging students to use their knowledge of the way the world works in order to understand how language works. The approach taken is hybrid: It assumes that form matters, and in this sense it is structural. It also assumes that forms follows function, and in this sense it is functional. As its subtitle suggests, the book is concerned with the argument structure of clauses, the boundary markers of clause combinations, and the syntactic and experiential resources that permit language users to supply the content of empty categories, which are the missing elements.

Author : Anne C. Lobeck
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195129847
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Grammar written by Anne C. Lobeck and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook for college courses in advanced grammar, structures of English, English syntax, and introduction to English language is written for the general student.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to English Sentence Structure: Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christina Tortora
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118659945
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Sentence Structure written by Christina Tortora and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed. This practical guide excites and empowers readers by guiding them step by step through each chapter with intermittent exercises. In order to capitalize on the reader's confidence as a personal authority on English, Understanding Sentence Structure assumes an inclusive definition of English, taking dialect variation and structures common amongst millions of English speakers to be a fact of natural language. Situates grammar as part of what the student already unconsciously knows Presupposes no prior instruction, not even in prescriptive grammar Begins analyzing sentences immediately, with the “big picture” (sentences have structure, structure can be ambiguous) and moves through levels of complexity, tapping into students’ tacit knowledge of sentence structure Includes exercise boxes for in-chapter practicing of skills, side notes that offer further tips/encouragement on topics being discussed, and new terms defined immediately and helpfully in term boxes Applies decades of findings in syntactic theory and cognitive science, with an eye towards making English grammar accessible to school teachers and beginning students alike Understanding Sentence Structure: An Introduction to English Syntax is an ideal book for undergraduates studying modern English grammar and for instructors teaching introductory courses in English grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.

Author : Robert Krohn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Sentence Structure written by Robert Krohn and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 1971 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ESL students at an intermediate level.

Author : N. Armstrong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137284390
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics written by N. Armstrong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization.

Author : Rodney Huddleston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009092731
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Introduction to English Grammar written by Rodney Huddleston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harold VosBurgh King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Sentence Structure Review written by Harold VosBurgh King and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: