A Critical Account of English Syntax: Grammar, Meaning, Text

by Jim Miller, Brown Keith Miller J, Keith Brown, et al.

Book Overview

Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748696105
• ISBN13: 9780748696109
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"