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An Introduction to English Syntax

MILLER, Jim

Basic information

Original name

An Introduction to English Syntax

Name (in English)

An Introduction to English Syntax

Authors

MILLER, Jim

Edition

2. vyd. Edinburgh, 224 pp. 2009

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Other information

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

ISBN

978-0-7486-3361-6

Keywords in English

English syntax
Změněno: 29/9/2010 10:43, Mgr. Martin Drápela, Ph.D.

Abstract

In English

In this revised and fully updated edition, Jim Miller covers the central concepts of syntax, which are applied in a wide range of university courses and business communication, teaching, and speech therapy. Miller handles concepts that are central to traditional grammar yet have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognize them; constructions and their interrelationships; subordinate clauses and their different types; subjects and objects; agents and patients, and other roles. The volume identifies the links between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse. A new chapter especially focuses on the analysis of discourse, and the concluding chapter explores tense, aspect, and voice, topics that are central to the construction of texts and that are major to the learning of a second language. Miller also provides areas in which meaning and grammar closely interconnect.