A Student's Grammar of the English Language

Abstract

The English language a general framework verbs and auxiliaries the semantics of the verb phrase nouns and determiners pronouns adjectives and adverbs the semantics and grammar of adverbials prepositions and prepositional phrases the simple sentence sentence types and discourse functions pro-forms and ellipsis co-ordination the complex sentence syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses complementation of verbs and adjectives the noun phrase theme, focus and information processing from sentences to text.