An introduction to the grammar of English 英语语法导论.pdfVIP

Table of contents Foreword xi Preface to the second edition xv Abbreviations xvii List of figures xix List of tables xxi chapter 1 Introduction 1 1. Examples of linguistic knowledge 1 1.1 Sounds and words 1 1.2 Syntactic structure 2 2. How do we know so much? 5 3. Examples of social or non-linguistic knowledge 6 4. Conclusion 8 Exercises 9 Class discussion 9 Keys to the exercises 10 Special topic: Split infinitive 10 chapter 2 Categories 12 1. Lexical categories 12 1.1 Nouns (N) and Verbs (V) 13 1.2 Adjectives (Adj) and Adverbs (Adv) 15 1.3 Prepositions (P) 18 2. Grammatical categories 19 2.1 Determiner (D) 19 2.2 Auxiliary (Aux) 21 2.3 Coordinator (C) and Complementizer (C) 21 3. Pronouns 23 4. What new words and loanwords tell us! 24 5. Conclusion 25 Exercises 27 Class discussion 29 Keys to the exercises 30 Special topic: Adverb and Adjective 32 vi An Introduction to the Grammar of English chapter 3 Phrases 35 1. The noun phrase (NP) 36 2. The adjective phrase, adverb phrase, verb phrase and prepositional phrase 39 2.1 The adjective phrase (AdjP) and adverb phrase (AdvP)