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A Critical Account of English Syntax: Grammar, Meaning, Text

By Jim Miller , Keith Brown

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
0748696083, 9780748696086
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6115683 bytes)
Series
Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language Advanced
Edition
1
Pages
320\307
Time added
2018-05-01 14:49:42
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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.

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