A Student's Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE)

Whatever kind of high-level language user you are - college or university student, serving language teacher, or advanced school learner - A Student's Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE) offers you support, information, and further training. SAGE is a reference work as well as a programmed refresher course with exercises on the accompanying website, and a structured teaching aid. It serves as a spot-check in specific cases of uncertainty. But it also answers broader queries and provides comprehensive insights into the major structural areas of English. Its concern is not simply grammar, but above all usage. SAGE is easy to comprehend and non-specialist in method. All grammatical terminology, whether traditional or innovative, is explained in a simple and straightforward manner. On the other hand, SAGE takes account of current research in language studies. In catering especially for the user with a native German background, SAGE treats many areas of English from a contrastive point of view, highlighting those phenomena which cause typical problems in a German-based learning context.

Sommario

Foreword VIIChapter 1 Introduction - Elements of English 1001 On grammar 1002 The character of English 3002/1 Who speaks English?. 3002/2 Where English comes from. 3002/3 Language varieties. 5002/4 Regional variants of English and standard languages 8003 Some basic concepts in language study 14003/1 Some general fields of language 14003/2 Basic grammatical categories. 17003/3 Sentence functions 19003/4 Sentence types and sentence patterns 24Chapter 2 Nouns 272.1 Basic features: introduction 27004 Main grammatical features 27004/1 Nouns and noun phrases 27004/2 Syntactic roles of noun phrases 28004/3 Morphological invariance 29004/4 Number: singular and plural 29004/5 Countability 30004/6 The genitive. 31005 Main semantic features 32005/1 Common and proper nouns 32005/2 Common nouns: concrete or abstract 33005/3 Common nouns: individual, mass, collective, and pair nouns 332.2 From singular to plural 34006 Regular plural formation 34006/1 Regular changes in spelling and pronunciation 34006/2 Special cases 34007 Irregular plural formation 35007/1 Vowel change 35007/2 Plurals in -en/-ence. 36007/3 Singular-plurals. 36007/4 Plural-singulars 37007/5 Greek and Latin plurals. 37007/6 Modern loan-word plurals 38008 Number, countability and meaning: details of use 39008/1 Individual nouns 39008/2 Mass nouns 39008/3 Collective nouns 41008/4 Pair nouns 43008/5 Quantifying non-count nouns 43008/6 Mass, collective and pair nouns with different German equivalents 45008/7 Summary: common nouns with different meanings in singular and plural 452.3 The genitive 46009 The s-genitive: form and syntax 46009/1 Spelling 46009/2 Pronunciation 47009/3 Syntax 47010 The of-genitive: form and syntax 49010/1 As a postmodifying prepositional phrase 49010/2 As part of a premodifying expression of quantity. 49010/3 The "double genitive" 49011 The genitive in general use 50011/1 Animate nouns: s-genitive 50011/2 Inanimate nouns: of-genitive 51012 Some specific uses of the genitive 52012/1 Quantifying expressions 52012/2 Constitutive meaning 53012/3 The pronoun s-genitive with localities 55012/4 Genitives with verb-related nouns 57012/5 Beyond the genitive: the collocational nature of "prepositional of" withverb-related nouns 58012/6 The compound noun in genitive meaning 58013 Summary: s-genitive and of-genitive in contrast 58013/1 The s-genitive in general use; exceptions 58013/2 The of-genitive in general use; exceptions 592.4 Noun forms 59014 Common suffixes 60014/1 Describing a state, condition or characteristic. 60014/2 Describing an action or state, or the result of one 60014/3 Describing a person/thing carrying out an action, or affected by one 60014/4 Describing fields of study, belief, professional activity or behaviour. 61014/5 Suffixes with mixed reference 61015 Prefixes 62015/1 Opposites. 62015/2 Describing place, order, size and rank. 62015/3 Describing self and others 62015/4 Referring to number and quantity 62015/5 Meaning "badly/wrongly". 62016 Compound nouns 63016/1 Two separate nouns 63016/2 The "hyphen" question. 63016/3 Two nouns as one 64016/4 Singular in the first element 64016/5 Other types of compound noun 64016/6 Pronunciation: stress. 66016/7 Plural forms. 68017 Compound nouns: summary and points of difficulty 68017/1 Type and spelling. 68017/2 Pronunciation: stress. 69018 Some other processes of noun formation 69018/1 Old forms into new 70018/2 Old words, new meanings. 71018/3 New words, new meanings. 71Chapter 3 Pronouns, Determiners and Quantifiers 733.1 Pronouns 73019 Main grammatical features 73020 Pronoun types 74020/1 Personal pronouns 74020/2 Possessives. 77020/3 Reflexive pronouns: self and others 79020/4 Reflexive pronouns: further points of usage 79020/5 Pronoun table (summary). 81020/6 Reflexives, possessives and personal pronouns: summary of importantpoints and common difficulties. 81020/7 Other pronoun types. 823.2

Info autore

Dr. Peter Fenn lehrt Englisch an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Fenn, Peter (Dr.) Fenn
• Editore: UTB
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.07.2010
• EAN: 9783825284329
• ISBN: 978-3-8252-8432-9
• Pagine: 599
• Peso: 1126 g
• Serie: Uni-Taschenbücher L; UTB Uni-Taschenbücher; UTB große Reihe; UTB Profile; UTB L; UTB L 8432; UTB Uni-Taschenbücher; UTB Profile; UTB L 8432
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese