English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing and Philip Locke.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 610 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415287876 (pbk.); 0415287871 (pbk.); 0415287863 (hbk.); 9780415287869 (hbk.)Subject(s): English language -- Grammar | English language -- Grammar -- Problems, exercises, etc | English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakersDDC classification: 428.24 | 425 LOC classification: PE1112 | .D68 2006Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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