A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
By: Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik ; index by David Crystal
Contributors: Quirk, Randolph.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1779
ISBN-13: 9780582517349
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: English language -- Grammar
Notes: Bibliography: p. [1641]-1664.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pronunciation table; title: Abbreviations and symbols; title: The English language; title: A survey of English grammar; title: Verbs and auxiliaries; title: The semantics of the verb phrase; title: Nouns and determiners; title: Pronouns and numerals; title: Adjectives and adverbs; title: The semantics and grammar of adverbials; title: Prepositions and prepositional phrases; title: The simple sentence; title: Sentence types and discourse functions; title: Pro-forms and ellipsis; title: Coordination; title: The complex sentence; title: Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; title: Complementation of verbs and adjectives; title: The noun phrase; title: Theme, focus, and information processing; title: From sentence to text; title: Appendixes.; title: Word-formation; title: Stress, rhythm, and intonation; title: Punctuation