English Grammar: Principles and Facts
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Book Overview
This text gives broad, up-to-date coverage of English grammatical facts and related concepts of introductory linguistics, emphasizing argumentation and motivation for empirically-based grammatical analyses without theoretical debates. It treats the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, phonology, morphology, word classes, phrase structure analysis of both simple sentences and a variety of complex sentences, grammatical relations, and anaphora (pronouns and pronoun-like elements).
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0132809672
ISBN13:9780132809672
Release Date:January 1989
Publisher:Prentice Hall
Length:617 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
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An excellent 2nd or 3rd book on grammar and linguistics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book is wonderful. It contains a bevvy of information on syntactic structures, not just in the English language, but from languages around the world. It is not, as some might expect, a "do-this-don't-do-that" prescriptivist manual on how to write or speak; if that is what you need, look elsewhere. There are plenty of books that can tell you not to end sentences with prepositions, or what a split infinitive is. This book explores living language in all of its wonderful vitality.
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