English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2015Edition: Third editionDescription: xix, 529 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780415732673 (hardback)
- 9780415732680 (paperback)
- University course in English grammar
- 428.2 23
- PE1112 .D68 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-512) and index.
Basic concepts --The skeleton of the message : introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb --Interaction between speaker and hearer; linking speech acts and grammar -- conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants,circumstances -- Organising the message: thematic and information structure if the clause -- Combining clauses into sentences -- 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 relations -- Describing persons.things and circumstances :adjectival and adverbial groups --Spatial , temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase.
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