文档介绍：An Introduction to the Grammar of English
Revised edition
An Introduction
to the Grammar of English
Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
Arizona State University
John Benjamins pany
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Gelderen, Elly van.
An introduction to the grammar of English / Elly van Gelderen. -- Rev. ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. English language--Grammar. 2. English language--Grammar, Historical. 3. English
language--Social aspects. 4. English language--Syntax. I. Title.
2010
--dc22 2009043299
isbn 978 90 272 3270 0 (hb; alk. paper) / 978 90 272 1168 2 (pb; alk. paper)
isbn 978 90 272 8862 2 (Eb)
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Table of contents
Foreword xi
Preface to the second edition xv
Abbreviations xvii
List of figures xix
List of tables xxi
chapter 1
Introduction 1
1. Examples of linguistic knowledge 1
Sounds and words 1
Syntactic structure 2
2. How do we know so much? 5
3. Examples of social or non-linguistic knowledge 6
4. Conclusion 8
Exercises 9
Class discussion 9
Keys to the exercises 10
Special topic: Split infinitive 10
chapter 2
Categories 12
1. Lexical categories 12
Nouns (N) and Verbs (V) 13
Adjectives (Adj) and Adverbs (Adv) 15
Prepositions (P) 18
2. Grammatical categories 19
Determiner (D) 19
Auxiliary (Aux) 21
Coord