Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Grammar [Browse]

Editor

• Aarts, Bas, 1961- [Browse]
• Bowie, Jill [Browse]
• Popova, Gergana [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. The volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, covering a range of theoretical approaches and including the relationship between 'core' grammar and other areas of language.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Grammar and meaning / Ash Asudeh
• Subordination and coordination / Thomas Egan
• Generative approaches / Terje Lohndal, Liliane Haegeman
• Dependency and valency approaches / Thomas Herbst
• Constructional approaches / Martin Hilpert
• Word classes / Willem B. Hollmann
• Modern and traditional descriptive approaches / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
• Change in grammar / Marianne Hundt
• Literary variation / Lesley Jeffries
• Information structure / Gunther Kaltenbèock
• Noun phrases / Evelien Keizer
• Grammar and phonology / Sam Hellmuth, Ian Cushing
• Clause types and speech act functions / Ekkehard Kèonig
• Global variation in the Anglophone world / Bernd Kortmann
• Functional approaches / J. Lachlan Mackenzie
• Grammar and lexis / Doris Schèonefeld
• Grammar and the use of data / Jon Sprouse, Carson Schèutze
• Regional varieties of English: Non-standard grammatical features / Peter Siemund
• Compounds / Laurie Bauer
• Theoretical approaches to morphology / Andrew Spencer
• Cognitive linguistic approaches / John R Taylor
• Conceptualizations of grammar in the history of English grammaticology / Margaret Thomas
• Grammar and corpus methodology / Sean Wallis
• Mood and modality / Debra Ziegler
• Inflection and derivation / Andrew Spencer
• Syntactic argumentation / Bas Aarts
• Phrase structure / Robert D. Borsley
• Tense and aspect / Ilse Depraetere, Anastasios Tsangalidis
• Genre variation / Heidrun Dorgeloh, Anja Wanner
• Grammar and discourse / Jill Bowie, Gergana Popova
• Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts / Patrick Duffley.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of English grammar
• English grammar

ISBN

• 0-19-107120-X
• 0-19-107119-6
• 0-19-181649-3

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