English Grammar: Prescriptive, Descriptive, Generative, Performance

by Kathryn Riley and Frank Parker

Book Overview

For graduates or advanced undergraduates going into a profession that entails analyzing other people's speech, such as English, linguistics, speech-language pathology, and teaching English as a second... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205200257
• ISBN13: 9780205200252
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Grammar!

I used this textbook in the grammar analysis class I had to have on my journey towards teaching certification. The book explores the four approaches to English grammar: Prescriptivism, Descriptivism, Generativism, and Performance. Most grammar taught in public schools is prescriptivist, even though most of us speak and write in a descriptivist way. Generativism and performance explore the way the brain basically spits out sentences. Generativism and performance are also more linguistical in approach, owing a great deal to Noam Chomsky.I found this book to be quite useful. It is informative, fairly easy to understand, and contains many valuable exercises. It's a great textbook to have for studying grammar and can be useful when studying linguistics.