Front cover; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; 1 Introduction to the Linguistic Study of Language; key concepts; who these books are for; how to use these books; what these books are about; communication; language; discourse; text; genre; ideology; language in education; thinking critically about language; standard english; grammar; other reasons for studying and teaching about language; the organization of these books; hints for success; references and resources; glossary; 2 Conceptions of Language and Grammar; the study of language.
7 The Minor Parts of Speechintroduction; pronouns; articles; auxiliary verbs; prepositions; intensifiers; conjunctions; references and resources; glossary; 8 Word Meaning; introduction; dictionary entries; mental dictionaries; concluding remarks; references and resources; glossary; 9 Phrases; introduction; what is a phrase?; modification and complementation; the adverb phrase (advp); the prepositional phrase (pp); the adjective phrase (ap); the noun phrase (np); the verb phrase (vp); references and resources; glossary; 10 Basic Clause Patterns; introduction; elements of the clause; subjects.
Phonological rulesreferences and resources; glossary; 5 Morphology and Word Formation; introduction; words and morphemes; morphemes, allomorphs, and morphs; words; registers and words; the internal structure of complex words; classifying words by their morphological properties; references and resources ; glossary; appendix a: some english derivational morphemes; 6 The Major Parts of Speech; introduction; the major parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs; references and resources; glossary; Appendix to major parts of speech; references and resources for appendix.
Semantic rolesauxiliary verbs; tense and aspect; basic clause patterns; references and resources; glossary ; appendix: time and tense; references and resources for appendix; 11 Modifications of Basic Clause Patterns ; introduction; movement; assignment of semantic roles; deletion; insertion; passive; references and resources; glossary; 12 Multi-Clause Sentences ; introduction; multi-clause sentences; recursion; complex sentences; finite vs. non-finite clauses; coordination; miscellaneous information-restructuring sentence types; concluding remarks; references and resources; glossary; Index.
The roles of the english teacherwhat is a language?; competence and performance; approaches to the study of language; references and resources; glossary ; 3 A Skeletal Introduction to English Grammar; introduction; clauses; sentences; phrases; complementation and modification; words; morphemes; parts of speech; regular and irregular forms; grammatical categories; sounds and spelling; form, function, and meaning; references and resources; glossary; 4 Phonetics and Phonology ; introduction; articulatory phonetics; consonants; vowels; syllables and feet; phonology; phonemes; allophones.