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Cambridge University Press 0521848377 - A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum Frontmatter More information

A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors’ authors’ pre previous vious work, work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America. The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called ‘incorrect’ and show why those authorities are mistaken. This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous previous background in grammar, grammar, and presupposes no linguistics. It contains exercises and and a wealth of other features, features, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education. Students will achieve an accurate understanding of grammar that will both enhance their language skills and provide a solid grounding for further linguistic study.

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RODNEY HUDDLESTON University of Queensland

GEOFFREY K. PULLUM University of California, Santa Cruz



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Contents

Notational conventions Preface 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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Introduction A rapid overview Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts Nouns and noun phrases Adjectives and adverbs You're Reading a Preview Prepositions and preposition phrases Unlock full access with a free trial. Negation and related phenomena Clause type: asking, exclaiming, and directing Download With Free Trial Subordination and content clauses Relative clauses Grade and comparison Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs Coordination and more Information packaging in the clause Morphology: words and lexemes

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Notational conventions

Abbreviations of grammatical terms Adj AdjP AdvP C, Comp DP N Nom NP O Od

Oi Indirect Object Adjective P Predicator Adjective Phrase Adverb Phrase PC Predicative Complement PP Preposition Phrase Complement Pred Comp Predicative Complement Determinative Phrase Noun Prep Preposition Nominal S, Subj Subject You're Reading a Preview V Verb Noun Phrase Unlock VP full access with a free trial.Phrase Object Verb Direct Object Download With Free Trial

Presentation of examples Italics are always used for citing examples (and for no other purpose). Bold italics are used for lexemes (as explained on p. 15). “Double quotation marks” enclose meanings. Underlining (single or double) and square brackets serve to highlight part of an example. The symbol ‘⋅’ marks a morphological division within a word or a component part of a word, as in ‘work ⋅er ⋅s’ or ‘the suffix ⋅s’.  The following symbols indicate the status of examples (in the interpretation Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title  under consideration): Useful Not useful


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Preface

This book is an introductory textbook on modern Standard English grammar, intended mainly for undergraduates, in English departments and schools of education as well as linguistics departments. (See www.cambridge.org/0521612888 for a link to the associated web site, where additional information can be found.) Though it takes note of developments in linguistics over the past few decades, and assumes a thorough knowledge of English, it does not presuppose any previous study of grammar or other aspects of linguistics. We believe that every educated person in the English-speaking world should know something about the details ofYou're the grammar English. There are a number of Reading of a Preview reasons. Unlock full access with a free trial.

There are hardly any professions in which an ability to write and speak crisply Download With Free Triala requirement on some and effectively without grammatical mistakes is not occasions. ● Although a knowledge of grammar will not on its own create writing skills, there is good reason to think that understanding the structure of sentences helps to increase sensitivity to some of the important factors that distinguish good writing from bad. ● Anyone who aims to improve their writing on the basis of another person’s technical criticism needs to grasp enough of the technical terms of grammatical description to make sure the criticism can be understood and implemented. ● It is widely agreed that the foremost prerequisite for computer programming is the ability to express thoughts clearly and grammatically in one’s native  Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title  language. Useful Not useful   it is a vital part Cancel anytime. ● In many professions (the law being a particularly clear example) Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month. of the content of the work to be able to say with confidence what meanings a par●

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viii ●

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Knowing the grammar of your native language is an enormous help for anyone embarking on the study of another language, even if it has rather different grammatical principles; the contrasts as well as the parallels aid understanding.

This book isn’t the last word on the facts of Standard English, or about grammar more generally, but we believe it will make a very good foundation. It is based on a much bigger one, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL), written between 1990 and 2002 in collaboration with an international team of other linguists. That book often contains much fuller discussion of the analysis we give here, together with careful argumentation concerning the alternative analyses that have sometimes been advocated, and why they are less successful. The process of writing this book, and The Cambridge Grammar before it, was continually surprising, intriguing, and intellectually exciting for us. Some think the study of English grammar is as dry as dust, probably because they think it is virtually completed, in the sense that nothing important in the field remains to be discovered. But it doesn’t seem that way to us. When working in our offices and meeting for lunchtime discussions we usually found that we would have at least one entirely new discovery to talk about over sandwiches. At the level of small but fasYou're Reading a Preview cinating details, there are thousands of new discoveries to be made about modern full access with a free trial. English. And even at the level ofUnlock the broad framework of grammatical principles, we have frequently found that pronouncements unchallenged for 200 years are in fact Download With Free Trial flagrantly false. We are pleased that we were again able to work with Kate Brett of Cambridge University Press, the same senior acquisitions editor who saw CGEL through to completion, and with Leigh Mueller, our invaluable copy-editor. We have constantly drawn on the expertise that was provided to CGEL by the other contributors: Peter Collins, David Lee, Peter Peterson, and Lesley Stirling in Australia; Ted Briscoe, David Denison, Frank Palmer, and John Payne in England; Betty Birner Geoff Nunberg, and Gregory Ward in the United States; Laurie Bauer in New Zealand; and Anita Mittwoch in Israel. There are many topics covered in CGEL that we couldn’t have tackled without their help, and this shorter presentation of some of those topics is indebted to them at various points.  ReadupFree Foron 30 Days to vote title  of The School of English, Media Studies and ArtSign History at thethisUniversity Useful Not useful   Cancel Queensland generously continued to provide an academic andanytime. electronic home for Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month. Rodney Huddleston while he worked full-time on this project. Professor Junko Itô,

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