TY - BOOK AU - Keith Brown AU - Jim Miller TI - A critical account of English syntax: grammar, meaning, text SN - 9780748696093 U1 - Elb 425 PY - 2016/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Edinburg University Press KW - English language--Syntax KW - English language--Grammar KW - English language--Semantics N2 - ackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching UR - https://sic-library.pilc.org.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=bcb4d9fb11273571e9ac005ee251ede6 ER -