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A Critical Account of English Syntax

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

A Critical Account of English Syntax

By Keith Brown, Jim Miller

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About the book

Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty...Show more

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9780748696086

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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A Critical Account of English Syntax

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Hardcover

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