Navigating English Grammar - A Guide to Analyzing Real Language

Navigating English Grammar presents an engaging and insightful introduction to the structure of English. Lobeck and Denham's inquiry-based approach encourages students to discover the fundamentals of English grammar by investigating their own intuitive knowledge of the language. This popular textbook equips students with a practical set of tools to analyze English in all its varieties and representations.
 
By exploring how English varies from community to community, and how English has changed over time, students find that English, like any other language, is a dynamic system, and that attitudes about language are often based on social perceptions rather than linguistic fact. In this fully revised and updated second edition of Navigating English Grammar, student-friendly chapters with examples taken from diverse varieties of American English illustrate the grammatical concepts of a living language, whose "rules" are decided by language users instead of language authorities. Accessible to any reader regardless of background in language and linguistics, this important textbook features:
* Entirely revised chapters on clauses, subordination and coordination, and modification
* Basic phrase structure rules and tree diagrams to provide accessible graphic representations of language structure
* Updated language examples drawn from varieties of American English that illustrate English as a dynamic system that changes over space and time
* Revisions and updates to all chapters including new exercises, text excerpts, and boxes
* A completely new capstone chapter that provides an overview of concepts and an extensive set of challenging practice exercises
 
Assuming no prior familiarity with the study of English grammar, Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar and related courses in English linguistics, second language acquisition, and language education programs. It is also a valuable resource for students studying the linguistics of other languages who want to improve their understanding of grammar.

Sommario

Dedication
 

Preface
 

Acknowledgements
 

Chapter 1
 
Introduction
 
What is English? Language Change and Variation
 
What is Grammar?
 
Prescriptive Grammar
 
Descriptive Grammar
 
The Components of Grammar
 
Syntax
 
Morphology
 
Semantics
 
Phonetics and phonology
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 2
 
Introduction
 
Semantic Distinctions among Nouns
 
Abstract and concrete
 
Common and proper
 
Count and mass
 
Collective nouns
 
Generic nouns
 
Noun Morphology
 
Inflectional affixation
 
Plurals
 
Possessives
 
Derivational affixation
 
Other ways we form nouns
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 3
 
Introduction
 
Categories that Precede Nouns
 
Determiners
 
Noun Phrases without Determiners
 
Numerals
 
Quantifiers
 
Order of D, NUM, and Q
 
Partitive, Measure, and Collective Noun Phrases
 
Possessive Noun Phrases
 
NP or N: pronoun substitution
 
Modifiers of Nouns
 
Adjectives that modify nouns
 
Nouns that modify nouns
 
Verbs that modify nouns
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 
Chapter 4
 
Introduction
 
Main Verbs
 
Main Verb Morphology
 
Derivational affixation and other ways we form verbs
 
Inflectional affixation
 
Infinitives
 
Present Tense
 
Past Tense
 
What about Future Tense?
 
Present and Past Participles
 
Suppletion
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 5
 
Introduction
 
Auxiliary Verbs
 
Auxiliary have
 
Auxiliary be
 
Main Verb have and be
 
Modals
 
Semi-modals
 
Verb strings with auxiliaries and modals
 
Aspect
 
Progressive aspect
 
Perfect aspect
 
Habitual aspect
 
Passive Voice and the Passive Verb String
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 6
 
Introduction
 
The Independent Clause
 
The Subject Position
 
Subjects of passive sentences
 
Pleonastic subjects
 
The Complement Position
 
Direct Objects
 
Other complements
 
The Tense Position
 
Subject-Auxiliary Inversion
 
Tag question formation
 
Negation
 
Diagramming Verb Strings
 
Do insertion
 
Main Verb be Raising
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 7
 
Introduction
 
Adjective Semantics
 
Adjective Morphology
 
Derivational affixation and other ways we form adjectives
 
Participial adjectives
 
Inflectional affixation: comparative and superlative adjectives
 
Adjective Syntax
 
Modifiers of adjectives
 
Adjective Phrase positions
 
Adjective phrases as prenominal and postnominal modifiers
 
Adjective phrases as subjective complements
 
Summary
 
Exercises
 

Chapter 8
 
Introduction
 
Adverb Semantics
 
Adverb Morphology
 
Derivational affixation and other ways we form adverbs
 
Inflectional affixation
 
Adverb Syntax
 
Modifiers of adverbs
 
Adverb phrase positions
 
Adverb phrase as modifiers in AP, PP, and NP
 
Adverb phrases as

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ANNE LOBECK and KRISTIN DENHAM are Professors of Linguistics at Western Washington University, where they teach courses on syntax, English grammar, and linguistics and education, and where they both enjoy making linguistic knowledge accessible and relevant for everyone. In addition to numerous publications on integrating linguistics in education, Lobeck and Denham have also co-edited Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education (2010) and co-authored Why Study Linguistics (2019) and Linguistics for Everyone (2013).

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Navigating English Grammar presents an engaging and insightful introduction to the structure of English. Lobeck and Denham's inquiry-based approach encourages students to discover the fundamentals of English grammar by investigating their own intuitive knowledge of the language. This popular textbook equips students with a practical set of tools to analyze English in all its varieties and representations.

By exploring how English varies from community to community, and how English has changed over time, students find that English, like any other language, is a dynamic system, and that attitudes about language are often based on social perceptions rather than linguistic fact. In this fully revised and updated second edition of Navigating English Grammar, student-friendly chapters with examples taken from diverse varieties of American English illustrate the grammatical concepts of a living language, whose "rules" are decided by language users instead of language authorities. Accessible to any reader regardless of background in language and linguistics, this important textbook features:
* Entirely revised chapters on clauses, subordination and coordination, and modification
* Basic phrase structure rules and tree diagrams to provide accessible graphic representations of language structure
* Updated language examples drawn from varieties of American English that illustrate English as a dynamic system that changes over space and time
* Revisions and updates to all chapters including new exercises, text excerpts, and boxes
* A completely new capstone chapter that provides an overview of concepts and an extensive set of challenging practice exercises

Assuming no prior familiarity with the study of English grammar, Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar and related courses in English linguistics, second language acquisition, and language education programs. It is also a valuable resource for students studying the linguistics of other languages who want to improve their understanding of grammar.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kristin Denham, Kristin (Western Washington University Denham, Anne Lobeck, Anne (Western Washington University Lobeck, Lobeck Anne
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781119944430
• ISBN: 978-1-119-94443-0
• Pagine: 272
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Grammatik, Linguistics, English Language, Englische Sprache, Sprachwissenschaften, Englisch /Sprache