Downing, Angela.
English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing and Philip Locke. - 2nd ed. - London : Routledge, 2006. - xxii, 610 p. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: published as A university course in English grammar. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic concepts -- The skeleton of the message: introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb -- Conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants, circumstances -- Interaction between speaker and hearer: linking speech acts and grammar -- Organising the message: thematic and information structures of the clause -- Expanding the message: clause combinations -- Talking about events: the verbal group - Viewpoints on events: tense, aspect and modality -- Talking about people and things: the nominal group -- describing persons, things and circumstances: adjectival and adverbial groups -- Spatial, temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase.
9780415287876 (pbk.) 0415287871 (pbk.) 0415287863 (hbk.) 9780415287869 (hbk.)
GBA568825 bnb
013274160 Uk
English language--Grammar.
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
PE1112 / .D68 2006
428.24 425
English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing and Philip Locke. - 2nd ed. - London : Routledge, 2006. - xxii, 610 p. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: published as A university course in English grammar. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic concepts -- The skeleton of the message: introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb -- Conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants, circumstances -- Interaction between speaker and hearer: linking speech acts and grammar -- Organising the message: thematic and information structures of the clause -- Expanding the message: clause combinations -- Talking about events: the verbal group - Viewpoints on events: tense, aspect and modality -- Talking about people and things: the nominal group -- describing persons, things and circumstances: adjectival and adverbial groups -- Spatial, temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase.
9780415287876 (pbk.) 0415287871 (pbk.) 0415287863 (hbk.) 9780415287869 (hbk.)
GBA568825 bnb
013274160 Uk
English language--Grammar.
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
PE1112 / .D68 2006
428.24 425