Critical Account of English Syntax
Subtitle: Grammar, Meaning, Text
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780748696086
Subjects: English language, grammar
Description: Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.