TY - BOOK AU - Downing,Angela AU - Locke,Philip AU - Downing,Angela TI - English grammar: a university course SN - 9780415287876 (pbk.) AV - PE1112 .D68 2006 U1 - 428.24 22 PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - English language KW - Grammar KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers N1 - 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 UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013154285&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -