English Grammar : A University Course
[Pages:640]ENGLISH GRAMMAR
This new edition of Downing and Locke's award-winning text-book has been thoroughly revised and rewritten by Angela Downing to offer an integrated account of structure, meaning and function in relation to context. Also used as a reference book, it provides the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. It is accessible and reader-friendly throughout.
Key features include:
? Chapters divided into modules of class-length materials ? Each new concept clearly explained and highlighted ? Authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, to illustrate
grammatical usage ? Clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and
student revision ? Exercises and topics for individual study ? Answer key for analytical exercises ? Comprehensive index ? Select bibliography ? Suggestions for further reading
This up-to-date, descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, and is particularly suitable for those whose native language is not English.
Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Linguistics (English Philology I) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
The late Philip Locke taught at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translation at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
A University Course Second edition
Angela Downing and Philip Locke
First published 1992 by Prentice Hall International (UK) Ltd
Routledge edition published 2002 by Routledge
This second edition published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
? 2006 Angela Downing and Philip Locke
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
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ISBN10: 0?415?28787?1 ISBN13: 9?78?0?415?28787?6 (pbk) ISBN10: 0?415?28786?3 ISBN13: 9?78?0?415?28786?9 (hbk)
This book is for: Enrique and to the memory of Philip Locke
CONTENTS
Foreword
xi
Preface to the second edition
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
xvii
Table of notational symbols
xxi
1 Basic concepts
1
Module 1 Language and meaning
3
Module 2 Linguistic forms and syntactic functions
9
Module 3 Negation and expansion
21
Exercises
28
2 The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause
structure
32
Module 4 Syntactic functions and structures of the clause
34
Module 5 Subject and Predicator
42
Module 6 Direct, Indirect and Prepositional Objects
50
Module 7 Subject and Object Complements
64
Module 8 Adjuncts
69
Further reading
76
Exercises
76
3 The development of the message: Complementation
of the verb
81
Introduction: Major complementation patterns and valency
83
Module 9 Intransitive and copular patterns
85
Module10 Transitive patterns
90
Module 11 Complementation by finite clauses
100
Module 12 Complementation by non-finite clauses
108
Summary of complementation patterns
114
Further reading
116
Exercises
116
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