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A GLOSSARY OF
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
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TITLES IN THE SERIES INCLUDE
Peter Trudgill
A Glossary of Sociolinguistics
0 7486 1623 3
Jean Aitchison
A Glossary of Language and Mind
0 7486 1824 4
Laurie Bauer
A Glossary of Morphology
0 7486 1853 8
Alan Davies
A Glossary of Applied Linguistics
0 7486 1854 6
Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery
A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics
0 7486 2018 4
Alan Cruse
A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics
0 7486 2111 3
Philip Carr
A Glossary of Phonology
0 7486 2234 9
Vyvyan Evans
A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics
0 7486 2280 2
Mauricio J. Mixco and Lyle Campbell
A Glossary of Historical Linguistics
0 7486 2379 5
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A Glossary of
English Grammar
Geoffrey Leech
Edinburgh University Press
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© Geoffrey Leech, 2006
Edinburgh University Press Ltd
22 e Square, Edinburgh
Typeset in Sabon
by Norman Tilley Graphics, Northampton,
and printed and bound in Finland
by WS Bookwell
A CIP record for this book is
available from the British Library
ISBN-10 0 7486 2406 6 (hardback)
ISBN-13 978 0 7486 2406 5
ISBN-10 0 7486 1729 9 (paperback)
ISBN-13 978 0 7486 1729 6
The right of Geoffrey Leech
to be identified as author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published with the support of the Edinburgh
University Publishing Initiatives Fund.
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Contents
Use of special symbols vi
Introduction 1
Glossary of English grammar 5
Useful books relating to English grammar 129
Suggestions for further reading 132
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Use of special symbols
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