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Navigating English Grammar

A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
2. Aufl.

von: Anne Lobeck, Kristin Denham
29,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	11.10.2024
ISBN/EAN:	9781119944454
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	288

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Enables students to understand their assumptions and beliefs about the language they use every day In Navigating English Grammar, Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham offer an engaging introduction to the linguistic study of the structure of English. Teaching basic grammatical analysis through inquiry rather than memorization, this popular textbook encourages students to use their intuitive knowledge of language to make their own discoveries about the grammatical categories add principles of the grammar of English. The book strikes a balance between basic descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, introducing students not only to the structure of English, but also in some cases to why English has the structure it does. Along the way, students discover how English has changed over time, and how it varies from speech community to speech community. Student-friendly chapters contain numerous examples drawn from different varieties of American English, which illustrate how English grammar is a dynamic system: perceptions of one variety as ‘better’ or ‘more correct’ than another, and notions of ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ English are socially constructed rather than based on linguistic fact. This edition is fully updated with new examples, new text excerpts from a diverse range of written genres and authors, and completely revised chapters and exercises. The book also includes an entirely new final capstone chapter designed to encourage students to apply what they have learned with more challenging practice exercises. Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar, English linguistics, and language education.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction What is English? Language Change and Variation What is Grammar? Prescriptive Grammar Descriptive Grammar The Components of Grammar Syntax Morphology Semantics Phonetics and phonology Summary Exercises Chapter 2 Introduction Semantic Distinctions among Nouns Abstract and concrete Common and proper Count and mass Collective nouns Generic nouns Noun Morphology Inflectional affixation Plurals Possessives Derivational affixation Other ways we form nouns Summary Exercises Chapter 3 Introduction Categories that Precede Nouns Determiners Noun Phrases without Determiners Numerals Quantifiers Order of D, NUM, and Q Partitive, Measure, and Collective Noun Phrases Possessive Noun Phrases NP or N: pronoun substitution Modifiers of Nouns Adjectives that modify nouns Nouns that modify nouns Verbs that modify nouns Summary Exercises Chapter 4 Introduction Main Verbs Main Verb Morphology Derivational affixation and other ways we form verbs Inflectional affixation Infinitives Present Tense Past Tense What about Future Tense? Present and Past Participles Suppletion Summary Exercises Chapter 5 Introduction Auxiliary Verbs Auxiliary have Auxiliary be Main Verb have and be Modals Semi-modals Verb strings with auxiliaries and modals Aspect Progressive aspect Perfect aspect Habitual aspect Passive Voice and the Passive Verb String Summary Exercises Chapter 6 Introduction The Independent Clause The Subject Position Subjects of passive sentences Pleonastic subjects The Complement Position Direct Objects Other complements The Tense Position Subject–Auxiliary Inversion Tag question formation Negation Diagramming Verb Strings Do insertion Main Verb be Raising Summary Exercises Chapter 7 Introduction Adjective Semantics Adjective Morphology Derivational affixation and other ways we form adjectives Participial adjectives Inflectional affixation: comparative and superlative adjectives Adjective Syntax Modifiers of adjectives Adjective Phrase positions Adjective phrases as prenominal and postnominal modifiers Adjective phrases as subjective complements Summary Exercises Chapter 8 Introduction Adverb Semantics Adverb Morphology Derivational affixation and other ways we form adverbs Inflectional affixation Adverb Syntax Modifiers of adverbs Adverb phrase positions Adverb phrase as modifiers in AP, PP, and NP Adverb phrases as complements More on Modifiers Summary Exercises Chapter 9 Introduction Preposition Semantics Preposition Morphology Preposition Syntax Complements of prepositions Prepositional phrases as complements and modifiers Particles Particle Semantics Particles Syntax Summary Exercises Chapter 10 Introduction Coordination Subordination Clauses and sentences Subordinate Clause Types Tensed clause complements Bare infinitival clause complements To-infinitive clause complements Participial clause complements Wh-clause complements Summary Exercises Chapter 11 Introduction Clauses that Modify Nouns: Relative Clauses Restrictive Relative Clauses Tensed, reduced, and infinitival relative clauses Nonrestrictive relative clauses Headless relative clauses Appositive NPs Movable Modifiers Movable AdvP modifiers Movable PP modifiers Movable NP modifiers Movable AP modifiers Movable VP modifiers Movable CL modifiers Summary Exercises Chapter 12 Introduction Syntactic Categories Complementation Complements of Verbs Complements of Adjectives Complements of Prepositions Complements of Nouns Modification Modifiers of Nouns Modifiers of Adjectives Modifiers of Adverbs Modifiers of Prepositions Modifiers of Verbs Modifiers of Clauses: Movable Modifiers Subordination Coordination Summary Practice and Review References

Autorenportrait

ANNE LOBECK and KRISTIN DENHAM are Professors of Linguistics at Western Washington University, where they teach courses on syntax, English grammar, and linguistics and education, and where they both enjoy making linguistic knowledge accessible and relevant for everyone. In addition to numerous publications on integrating linguistics in education, Lobeck and Denham have also co-edited Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education (2010) and co-authored Why Study Linguistics (2019) and Linguistics for Everyone (2013).