Introduction to live grammar
Subtitle: a grammar of English centered on the verb
By: Norma Corrales-Martin
Series: LINCOM studies in English linguistics -- 18; LINCOM studies in English linguistics -- 18.
Publisher: Lincom Europa
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Muenchen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9783862883493
Subjects: English language; Grammar; Verb
Other titles: Grammar of English centered on the verb
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Literature review --; title: Otto Jespersen's Essentials of english grammar (1933 (1960)) --; title: Charles Fillmore's Some problems for case grammar (1971) --; title: The FrameNet project developed by C. Fillmore and collaborators at Berkley (Version 07, July 2001) --; title: Noam Chomsky's Government and binding theory as presented by Cheryl A. Black (1999) --; title: R. M. W. Dixon's A semantic approach to grammar (1991 (2005)) --; title: So, what is different about live grammar? --; title: The corpus of this study is a book of The Beatles' songs --; title: Methodology and nomenclature --; title: Theoretical framework --; title: Concept of sentence --; title: At the pragmatic level modality reflects the intention of the speaker --; title: At the semantic-syntactic level verb is the essential grammatical category --; title: Protonouns establish case relationships with verbs --; title: At the syntactic level protonoun is the basic as opposed to essential (verb) grammatical category in a sentence --; title: Protonouns are the nuclei of a constituent --; title: Constituents are the morphosyntactic equivalent of verb cases --; title: The use or absence of grammatical connectors between categories in a sentence is a topic that will also be explored --; title: Grammatical categories --; title: Verb is a word conjugated for a person, number and tense --; title: Verbal is a non-conjugated verbal form --; title: Protonoun is a noun or a word that acts like it : this is an umbrella category --; title: Noun is a primary grammatical category : it can be substantive, adjective or adverb --; title: Articles and demonstratives are a secondary category --; title: Adjective is a secondary category, a word that qualifies or quantifies substantive nouns exclusively --; title: Adverb is a secondary category when it intensifies nouns : it is a tertiary category when it intensifies adjectives and adverbs --; title: Verb 2 is a protonoun, a primary category that can depend on a verb 1 or a noun --; title: Connectors or links occur at the morphological level, between particular grammatical categories --; title: Prepositions are links that occur to the left of a noun to introduce a verb case at the syntactic level : at the morphological level, they occur to the right to complement the meaning of a verb or a noun --; title: Conjunctions are links that generally connect the same grammatical category --; title: Relative pronouns are protonouns that reproduce a noun anaphorically, and form a case relationship with a verb 2 (v2) --; title: Proverbs are protonouns akin to relative pronouns, but it names a link that reproduces a v2 cataphorically, while answering a question about a verb 1 (VI) --; title: Link pronouns are protonouns that link a VI to a v2, and establish case relationships with both verbs --; title: Relationships between grammatical categories --; title: Relationships between verbs and protonouns, at the syntactic level --; title: Relationships between categories, at the morphosyntactic level --; title: By preposition --; title: By conjunction --; title: By juxtaposition --; title: By apposition --; title: Relationships between categories at the semantic level --; title: Complementation --; title: Reproduction --; title: Subordination --; title: Table 1 summarizes and exemplifies the functioning of these relationships in english using examples from different songs in the corpus --; title: Research results --; title: Verb cases --; title: Entities or person cases --; title: Circumstantial cases --; title: Noun classes and their modifiers --; title: Substantive noun, including pronoun, infinitive and gerund, and their modifiers --; title: Adjective noun, including past participle and its modifiers --; title: Adverb noun and its modifiers --; title: Semantic relationships between nouns --; title: Complementation by preposition --; title: Complementation by apposition --; title: Reproduction by apposition --; title: Mechanisms of relationship between grammatical categories --; title: Preposition --; title: Conjunction --; title: Juxtaposition --; title: Apposition --; title: Verbal constituents --; title: Special constructions --; title: Disputed constituency decisions --; title: Passive voice --; title: Conclusions -- -- Appendix I : verb case relationship matrix; title: The fool on the hill --; title: She's leaving home --; title: Ask me why --; title: With a little help from my friends ---- Appendix II : colors for the appointment in Samarra-- Appendix III : Glossary; title: Appendix IV : guide of analysis of the song-- Bibliography.