A Comprehensive Grammar of the English LanguageLongman, 1985 - 1779 Seiten From the time when we started collaborating as a team in the 1960s, we envisaged not a grammar but a series of grammars. In 1972, there appeared the first volume in this series, A Grammar of Contemporary English (GCE). This was followed soon afterwards by two shorter works, A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE) and A University Grammar of English (UGE), published in the United States with the title A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English. With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which results in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it. Yet, as with our other volumes since GCE, it is also a grammar that incorporates our own further research on grammatical structure as well as the research of scholars worldwide who have contributed to the description of English and to developments in linguistic theory. - Preface. |
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... live don't live Temporal long and very long tend to be restricted to assertive contexts : I can't stay ( very ) long . Contrast : I can ( ' t ) stay longer . a long time . Negative intensification There are various ways of giving ...
... live don't live Temporal long and very long tend to be restricted to assertive contexts : I can't stay ( very ) long . Contrast : I can ( ' t ) stay longer . a long time . Negative intensification There are various ways of giving ...
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... live ' ( cf specific locative where : You can keep a horse where you live ) . The conditional - concessive meaning ( more applicable to a city - dweller ) is ' It doesn't matter where you live , you can keep a horse ( and the horse need ...
... live ' ( cf specific locative where : You can keep a horse where you live ) . The conditional - concessive meaning ( more applicable to a city - dweller ) is ' It doesn't matter where you live , you can keep a horse ( and the horse need ...
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... live living in the country . ( But with would loathe , the infinitive is just as acceptable as the -ing participle . ) Here to live implies that Brian could exercise choice about where to live , whereas living presupposes that he ...
... live living in the country . ( But with would loathe , the infinitive is just as acceptable as the -ing participle . ) Here to live implies that Brian could exercise choice about where to live , whereas living presupposes that he ...
Inhalt
A survey of English grammar | 35 |
Verbs and auxiliaries | 93 |
The semantics of the verb phrase | 173 |
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acceptable adjective adjuncts adverbs antecedent cataphoric cf App classes clause cf clause elements cleft sentence common Compare concord conjoins conjuncts constituents construction context contrast cooccur coordination coreference corresponding count nouns denoting determiner direct object disjuncts distinction ellipsis ellipted English equivalent esp AmE esp BrE example expressions finite frequently function genitive grammatical head imperative implied indefinite article indicate inflection informal intensifier interpretation interrogative John language lexical main verb Mary meaning modal auxiliaries modifiers negation negative nonassertive noncount nouns nonfinite normally Note noun phrase obligatory occur operator participle passive past tense personal pronouns plural position possible postmodifier preceding predication premodified prepositional phrases present pro-forms realized reference reflexive pronoun relation relative clause restricted role segregatory semantic sense sentence singular sometimes speaker speech stative structure subject complement subjuncts subordinate substitute syntactic tag question types usage usually verb phrase wh-element wh-questions words