The Structure of Modern English

The Structure of Modern English

Author: Laurel J. Brinton

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9027225672

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This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.


The Structure of Modern English

The Structure of Modern English

Author: Laurel J. Brinton

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781556196621

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This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.


A Survey of Modern English

A Survey of Modern English

Author: Stephan Gramley

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0415300355

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This comprehensive and systematic review of modern English presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender and ethnic variations.


Modern English Structures - Second Edition

Modern English Structures - Second Edition

Author: Bernard O'Dwyer

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-06-14

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781551117638

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Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence constituent goes—Form, Function, and Position. The objective of the book is to bring students to a better understanding of sentence constituents and sentence structures, providing them with appropriate terminology to discuss these forms and relationships. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout. The accompanying Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills.


Syntactic Structures

Syntactic Structures

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 3112316002

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Modern English Syntax

Modern English Syntax

Author: C.T. Onions

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-16

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 113689859X

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This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis. Part I contains a treatment of syntactical phenomena based on the analysis of sentences; Part II classifies the uses of forms. Cross-references indicate how the two parts supplement one another.


Varieties of Modern English

Varieties of Modern English

Author: Diane Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1317878140

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The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops. Varieties of Modern English provides a critical introduction to the study of regional, social, gendered, context- and medium-related varieties of the language, and explores some of the debates concerning the role and impact of English in different parts of the world today. Beginning by outlining the main types of variation in language, the book focuses on the link between language or dialect and the construction of both group and individual identities. Issues of identity are crucial to chapters on the roots of Modern English, on gender and English, on ethnicity and English and on English as an international language. As well as looking at a range of 'users' of the language, Davies also explores many of its 'uses' and modes, including the English of literary texts, advertising, newspaper reporting and commentary, political speeches, email and text messaging. Written in a discursive, student-friendly style, the book also provides: * A rich mix of illustrative material * End-of-chapter Activities and related Comments at the end of the book * Suggestions for further reading Varieties of Modern English provides a thought-provoking overview of its subject and will be invaluable reading for students of English Language and Linguistics.


Modern English Grammar

Modern English Grammar

Author: K.S. Yadurajan

Publisher: OUP India

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780198082958

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Focusing on how the English language works in the Indian context, this book discusses all the critical components of modern English grammar: from finite and non-finite verb and gerunds and the infinitive to different kinds of clauses, tense, active and passive voice, punctuation, phrasal verbs, etc.


An Introduction to English Sentence Structure

An Introduction to English Sentence Structure

Author: Jon Jonz

Publisher: Equinox

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781845531461

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An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials of functionalism. The book starts from the premise that the structure of language reflects the structure of events in everyday experience. By contrast, grammars that are more structural in nature often begin with gross facts about language structure, such as the observation that clauses can be divided into subjects and predicates. The book's premise reflects the fundamental Hallidayan principle that language simultaneously codes for three dimensions of structure: clause as representation, clause as exchange, and clause as message. This approach has the effect of situating the study of language in the student's familiar world of ideas, relationships, and discourses. The book blends insights from three prominent modern schools of grammatical thought (functionalism, structuralism, and generativism) using functionalism as the philosophical and organizational motif. The book focuses on the representational function of language, encouraging students to use their knowledge of the way the world works in order to understand how language works. The approach taken is hybrid: It assumes that form matters, and in this sense it is structural. It also assumes that forms follows function, and in this sense it is functional. As its subtitle suggests, the book is concerned with the argument structure of clauses, the boundary markers of clause combinations, and the syntactic and experiential resources that permit language users to supply the content of empty categories, which are the missing elements.


Inversion in Modern English

Inversion in Modern English

Author: Heidrun Dorgeloh

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1997-03-06

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9027275823

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The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.