A Glossary of English GrammarAuthor(s): Geoffrey Leech
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 2006
Pages: 141
Size: 1.50 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English
This book is a concise glossary of terms (words, expressions) used to describe English grammar. The book could have been much longer – and much more intimidating. This would have taken the author into the territory of dictionary- making rather than glossarymaking. To avoid this, Geoffrey Leech has had to choose rather carefully which are the more important words to include and which terms can be excluded.
Like other fields of knowledge, grammar suffers from overlapping and coinciding terminologies. For example, far too often different grammarians provide different terms for describing the same thing. In part this may be for a good reason: different grammarians use different terms because they are looking at the same thing from a different viewpoint – wearing different theoretical glasses, shall we say.
This alphabetical guide clearly defines standard grammatical terms and shows how they are used, encompassing variants as found in Huddleston and Pullum's Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
Like other fields of knowledge, grammar suffers from overlapping and coinciding terminologies. For example, far too often different grammarians provide different terms for describing the same thing. In part this may be for a good reason: different grammarians use different terms because they are looking at the same thing from a different viewpoint – wearing different theoretical glasses, shall we say.
This alphabetical guide clearly defines standard grammatical terms and shows how they are used, encompassing variants as found in Huddleston and Pullum's Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
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