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Navigating English Grammar - Anne Lobeck, Kristin Denham

Navigating English Grammar

A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2024 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-94443-0 (ISBN)
CHF 46,40 inkl. MwSt
Enables students to understand their assumptions and beliefs about the language they use every day

In Navigating English Grammar, Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham offer an engaging introduction to the linguistic study of the structure of English. Teaching basic grammatical analysis through inquiry rather than memorization, this popular textbook encourages students to use their intuitive knowledge of language to make their own discoveries about the grammatical categories add principles of the grammar of English.

The book strikes a balance between basic descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, introducing students not only to the structure of English, but also in some cases to why English has the structure it does. Along the way, students discover how English has changed over time, and how it varies from speech community to speech community. Student-friendly chapters contain numerous examples drawn from different varieties of American English, which illustrate how English grammar is a dynamic system: perceptions of one variety as ‘better’ or ‘more correct’ than another, and notions of ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ English are socially constructed rather than based on linguistic fact.

This edition is fully updated with new examples, new text excerpts from a diverse range of written genres and authors, and completely revised chapters and exercises. The book also includes an entirely new final capstone chapter designed to encourage students to apply what they have learned with more challenging practice exercises.

Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar, English linguistics, and language education.

ANNE LOBECK and KRISTIN DENHAM are Professors of Linguistics at Western Washington University, where they teach courses on syntax, English grammar, and linguistics and education, and where they both enjoy making linguistic knowledge accessible and relevant for everyone. In addition to numerous publications on integrating linguistics in education, Lobeck and Denham have also co-edited Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education (2010) and co-authored Why Study Linguistics (2019) and Linguistics for Everyone (2013).

Dedication

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1

Introduction 

What is English? Language Change and Variation 

What is Grammar?

Prescriptive Grammar

Descriptive Grammar 

The Components of Grammar 

Syntax 

Morphology 

Semantics 

Phonetics and phonology 

Summary

Exercises 

 

Chapter 2

Introduction 

Semantic Distinctions among Nouns 

 Abstract and concrete 

 Common and proper 

 Count and mass  

    Collective nouns 

 Generic nouns 

Noun Morphology 

 Inflectional affixation 

            Plurals

            Possessives

 Derivational affixation 

 Other ways we form nouns 

Summary 

Exercises 

 

Chapter 3

Introduction 

Categories that Precede Nouns 

 Determiners 

            Noun Phrases without Determiners

 Numerals 

 Quantifiers 

 Order of D, NUM, and Q 

Partitive, Measure, and Collective Noun Phrases 

Possessive Noun Phrases 

 NP or N: pronoun substitution 

Modifiers of Nouns 

 Adjectives that modify nouns 

 Nouns that modify nouns 

 Verbs that modify nouns 

Summary 

Exercises 


Chapter 4

Introduction 

Main Verbs 

Main Verb Morphology 

 Derivational affixation and other ways we form verbs 

 Inflectional affixation 

            Infinitives

            Present Tense

            Past Tense

            What about Future Tense?

            Present and Past Participles

 Suppletion 

Summary 

Exercises 

 

Chapter 5

Introduction 

Auxiliary Verbs 

 Auxiliary have

    Auxiliary be 

 Main Verb have and be

Modals 

Semi-modals

Verb strings with auxiliaries and modals 

Aspect 

 Progressive aspect 

 Perfect aspect 

    Habitual aspect 

Passive Voice and the Passive Verb String 

Summary 

Exercises 

 

Chapter 6

Introduction 

The Independent Clause

     The Subject Position

         Subjects of passive sentences 

         Pleonastic subjects 

     The Complement Position

            Direct Objects

           Other complements

The Tense Position

    Subject–Auxiliary Inversion 

    Tag question formation

    Negation

Diagramming Verb Strings

    Do insertion

    Main Verb be Raising

Summary 

Exercises 

 

Chapter 7

Introduction 

Adjective Semantics 

Adjective Morphology 

 Derivational affixation and other ways we form adjectives 

 Participial adjectives 

 Inflectional affixation: comparative and superlative adjectives 

Adjective Syntax 

 Modifiers of adjectives 

 Adjective Phrase positions

         Adjective phrases as prenominal and postnominal modifiers

Adjective phrases as subjective complements 

Summary 

Exercises 

 

Chapter 8

Introduction

Adverb Semantics

Adverb Morphology

Derivational affixation and other ways we form adverbs

Inflectional affixation

Adverb Syntax

Modifiers of adverbs

Adverb phrase positions

Adverb phrase as modifiers in AP, PP, and NP  

Adverb phrases as complements

More on Modifiers

Summary

Exercises

 

Chapter 9

Introduction

Preposition Semantics

Preposition Morphology

Preposition Syntax

Complements of prepositions

Prepositional phrases as complements and modifiers

Particles

Particle Semantics

Particles Syntax

Summary

Exercises

 

Chapter 10

Introduction

   Coordination

Subordination

Clauses and sentences

Subordinate Clause Types

Tensed clause complements

Bare infinitival clause complements

To-infinitive clause complements

Participial clause complements

Wh-clause complements

Summary

Exercises

 

Chapter 11

Introduction

Clauses that Modify Nouns: Relative Clauses

   Restrictive Relative Clauses

           Tensed, reduced, and infinitival relative clauses

Nonrestrictive relative clauses

Headless relative clauses

Appositive NPs

Movable Modifiers

   Movable AdvP modifiers

Movable PP modifiers

Movable NP modifiers

Movable AP modifiers

Movable VP modifiers

Movable CL modifiers

Summary

Exercises

 

Chapter 12

Introduction 

Syntactic Categories

Complementation

Complements of Verbs

Complements of Adjectives

Complements of Prepositions

Complements of Nouns

Modification

Modifiers of Nouns

Modifiers of Adjectives

Modifiers of Adverbs

Modifiers of Prepositions

Modifiers of Verbs

Modifiers of Clauses: Movable Modifiers

Subordination

Coordination

Summary

Practice and Review 

 

References

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.11.2024
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 231 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-119-94443-0 / 1119944430
ISBN-13 978-1-119-94443-0 / 9781119944430
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