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Andreea S. Calude, Laurie Bauer

Mysteries of English Grammar

A Guide to Complexities of the English Language. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,0 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 188 Seiten
EAN 9780367710279
Veröffentlicht September 2021
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This book illuminates some of the complexities of the grammar of English, the areas where new discoveries await and why it matters. Both aimed at the interested general reader and the beginning student of English language and linguistics, this is a fresh take on grammar.

Portrait

Andreea S. Calude is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has a background in mathematics and linguistics and researches (spoken) grammar, language evolution, loanwords and just about any quantitative language-related question she can get data on. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Te Reo - the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand and the co-editor of Questions About Language, with Laurie Bauer (2020). Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Preface 1 Introduction 2. What you must say, what you can say and what you do not say: Grammar and norm 3. Over and out: Prepositions 4. You'll never get nowhere: Double negatives 5. All the way from the Ukraine: The definite article 6. A large amount of exceptions: Countability 7. The author has finished this chapter last year: The present perfect 8. An even more interestinger topic: Comparatives and superlatives 9. I'm lovin' it: The progressive 10. The good, the bad and the ugly: Adjectives 11. What it is is a nonstandard feature: Double be construction 12. Human dogs and inhuman people: Gender and related matters 13. The chapter that I put too many pronouns in it: Shadow pronouns 14. There's heaps of money to be won: Number agreement 15. Because I'm worth it: Insubordinate clauses 16. They are cleverer than she and I: Pronominal case 17. Is that your wife again?: Possession 18. Conclusion Glossary: Language for language Index

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