Discovering Grammar An Introduction to English Sentence Structure

Name: Discovering Grammar An Introduction to English Sentence Structure
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ISBN: 9780195129847

ISBN-10: 0195129849

ISBN-13: 9780195129847

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Anne Lobeck

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Discovering Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure encourages students to explore grammar through a unique "discovery" approach that encompasses both critical thinking and text analysis. Ideal for courses in the structure of English, this book is also useful for courses in English education/language arts, English as a second language, and linguistics. Part One offers an overview of different definitions of and approaches to grammar and outlines the approach to descriptive grammar taken in the text. This section also includes an introduction to phrase structure and evidence for syntactic structure based on movement, pronominalization, and coordination. Part Two introduces…

Book details

List price: $199.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Anne Lobeck is Professor of English and Linguistics at Western Washington University. Her work includes articles on theoretical syntax and linguistics in education, and in addition to her two books with Kristin Denham she is author of Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing and Identification (1995) and Discovering Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure (2000).

Each chapter opens with an Introduction and closes with a Summary, Discovery Problems, Text Analysis, Language Diversity Exercises, Chapter Review Terms, and Chapter Review Exercises Preface Acknowledgments PART I: THE GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM 1. Grammar and Our Knowledge of Language The Components of Grammar Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar Standard English The Approach to Grammar in This Book 2. Some Syntactic Fundamentals: Categories and Phrases Syntactic Categories Grammatical and Lexical Categories Phrase Structure 3. Evidence for Phrases: Movement, Pronominalization, and Coordination Movement Pronominalization Coordination PART II: CATEGORIES 4.…