Title & Author:

A Grammar of contemporary English [by] Randolph Quirk [and others].

Publication:

[London] Longman, 1972.

Description:

xii, 1120 pages illustrations 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1083-1091) and index.
Symbols and technical conventions -- The English language -- The sentence : a preliminary view -- The verb phrase -- Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- The simple sentence -- Adjuncts, disjuncts, conjuncts -- Coordination and apposition -- Sentence connection -- The complex sentence -- The verb and its complementation -- The complex noun phrase -- Focus, theme, and emphasis -- Appendixes. Word-formation -- Stress, rhythm, and intonation -- Punctuation.

Summary:

There have been very few attempts at so comprehensive a coverage as is offered in the present work. Fewer still in terms of synchronic description. And none at all so comprehensive or in such depth has been produced within an English-speaking country. Moreover, our Grammar aims at this comprehensiveness and depth in treating English irrespective of frontiers: our field is no less than the grammar of educated English current in the second half of the twentieth century in the world's major English-speaking communities. - Preface.

Resources:
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ISBN:

058252444X (hardcover)
9780582524446 (hardcover)

Subject:

English language Grammar.
Anglais (Langue) Grammaire.
Englisch
Grammatik
Ingles (Gramatica)
English language Grammar 1950-.
Anglais (langue) Grammaire.

Added entries:

Quirk, Randolph.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 40760
Call No.: PE1106.G67 (ID:89-B10539)
Status: Available