This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. The volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, covering a range of theoretical approaches and including the relationship between 'core' grammar and other areas of language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part I: Grammar writing and methodology
- 1: Margaret Thomas: Conceptualizations of grammar in the history of English grammaticology
- 2: Bas Aarts: Syntactic argumentation
- 3: Jon Sprouse and Carson T. Schütze: Grammar and the use of data
- 4: Sean Wallis: Grammar and corpus methodology
- Part II: Approaches to English grammar
- 5: John R. Taylor: Cognitive linguistic approaches
- 6: Martin Hilpert: Constructional approaches
- 7: Thomas Herbst: Dependency and valency approaches
- 8: Terje Lohndal and Liliane Haegeman: Generative approaches
- 9: J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Functional approaches
- 10: Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum: Modern and traditional descriptive approaches
- 11: Andrew Spencer: Theoretical approaches to morphology
- Part III: Subdomains of grammar
- 12: Andrew Spencer: Inflection and derivation
- 13: Laurie Bauer: Compounds
- 14: Willem B. Hollmann: Word classes
- 15: Robert D. Borsley: Phrase structure
- 16: Evelien Keizer: Noun phrases
- 17: Patrick Duffley: Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts
- 18: Ekkehard König: Clause types and speech act functions
- 19: Ilse Depraetere and Anastasios Tsangalidis: Tense and aspect
- 20: Debra Ziegeler: Mood and modality
- 21: Thomas Egan: Subordination and coordination
- 22: Gunther Kaltenböck: Information structure
- Part IV: Grammar and other fields of enquiry
- 23: Doris Schönefeld: Grammar and lexis
- 24: Sam Hellmuth and Ian Cushing: Grammar and phonology
- 25: Ash Asudeh: Grammar and meaning
- 26: Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova: Grammar and discourse
- Part V: Grammatical variation and change
- 27: Marianne Hundt: Change in grammar
- 28: Peter Siemund: Regional varieties of English: non-standard grammatical features
- 29: Bernd Kortmann: Global variation in the Anglophone world
- 30: Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner: Genre variation
- 31: Lesley Jeffries: Literary variation
