| Description |
xvii, 1842 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1765-1778) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston -- Syntactic overview ; The verb ; The clause : complements / Rodney Huddleston -- Nouns and noun phrases / John Payne and Robert Huddleston -- Adjectives and adverbs ; Prepositions and preposition phrases / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston -- The clause : adjuncts / Anita Mittwoch, Rodney Huddleston, and Peter Collins -- Negation / Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston -- Clause type and illocutionary force ; Content clauses and reported speech / Rodney Huddleston -- Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Peter Peterson -- Comparative constructions ; Non-finite and verbless clauses / Rodney Huddleston -- Coordination and supplementation / Rodney Huddleston, John Payne, and Peter Peterson -- Information packaging / Gregory Ward, Betty Birner, and Rodney Huddleston -- Deixis and anaphora / Lesley Stirling and Rodney Huddleston -- Inflectional morphology and related matters / Frank Palmer, Rodney Huddleston, and Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Lexical word-formation / Laurie Bauer and Rodney Huddleston -- Punctuation / Geoffrey Nunberg, Ted Briscoe, and Rodney Huddleston. |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar.
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English language -- Grammar. |
| Added Author |
Pullum, Geoffrey K.
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| ISBN |
0521431468 hardback |
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