- 1 Introduction to the Linguistic Study of Language Contents
- key concepts
- who these books are for
- how to use these books
- what these books are about
- communication.
- language
- discourse.
- text
- genre
- ideology.
- language in education.
- thinking critically about language.
- standard english
- grammar.
- other reasons for studying and teaching about language.
- the organization of these books
- hints for success
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 2 Conceptions of Language and Grammar
- the study of language.
- the roles of the english teacher.
- what is a language?.
- competence and performance.
- approaches to the study of language
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 3 A Skeletal Introduction to English Grammar
- introduction
- clauses.
- sentences.
- phrases.
- complementation and modification.
- words.
- morphemes.
- parts of speech
- regular and irregular forms viii
- grammatical categories.
- sounds and spelling.
- form, function, and meaning
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 4 Phonetics and Phonology
- introduction
- articulatory phonetics
- consonants
- vowels
- syllables and feet.
- phonology.
- phonemes.
- allophones
- phonological rules
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 5 Morphology and Word Formation
- introduction
- words and morphemes
- morphemes, allomorphs, and morphs.
- words.
- registers and words.
- the internal structure of complex words
- classifying words by their morphological properties.
- references and resources
- glossary.
- appendix a: some english derivational morphemes
- 6 The Major Parts of Speech
- introduction
- the major parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
- references and resources
- glossary.
- Appendix to major parts of speech
- references and resources for appendix.
- 7 The Minor Parts of Speech
- introduction
- pronouns. ix
- articles
- auxiliary verbs.
- prepositions.
- intensifiers
- conjunctions
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 8 Word Meaning
- introduction
- dictionary entries
- mental dictionaries
- concluding remarks.
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 9 Phrases
- introduction
- what is a phrase?.
- modification and complementation.
- the adverb phrase (advp)
- the prepositional phrase (pp)
- the adjective phrase (ap).
- the noun phrase (np)
- the verb phrase (vp)
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 10 Basic Clause Patterns
- introduction
- elements of the clause
- subjects
- semantic roles.
- auxiliary verbs.
- tense and aspect.
- basic clause patterns
- references and resources
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- 11 Modifications of Basic Clause Patterns x
- introduction
- movement.
- assignment of semantic roles
- deletion.
- insertion
- passive.
- references and resources
- glossary.
- 12 Multi-Clause Sentences
- introduction
- multi-clause sentences
- recursion.
- complex sentences
- finite vs. non-finite clauses
- coordination
- miscellaneous information-restructuring sentence types.
- concluding remarks.
- references and resources
- glossary.
- Index
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