Introduction |
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Why study the grammar of English? |
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2 | (2) |
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What counts as the grammar of English? |
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4 | (3) |
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7 | (2) |
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9 | (10) |
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Grammaticality and acceptability |
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9 | (1) |
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Grammaticality and intuition |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (2) |
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Grammaticality: descriptive and prescriptive grammar |
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15 | (1) |
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Grammaticality and language change |
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16 | (3) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases |
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19 | (13) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: introduction |
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19 | (2) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and denotation |
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21 | (1) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives and gradability |
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22 | (1) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as heads of noun phrases |
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23 | (3) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjectives as a word class |
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26 | (2) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: adjective positions in noun phrases |
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28 | (2) |
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Adjectives and adjective phrases: reduplication |
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30 | (2) |
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Adverbs and adverb phrases |
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32 | (6) |
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Adverbs and adverb phrases: introduction |
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32 | (2) |
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Adverbs and adverb phrases: adverbs and adjectives |
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34 | (2) |
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Adverbs and adverb phrases: structure of adverb phrases |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (10) |
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Adverbial clauses: introduction |
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38 | (1) |
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Adverbial clauses: time, condition, reason, concession |
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39 | (1) |
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Adverbial clauses: less common types |
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40 | (1) |
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Adverbial clauses: position in clauses and sentences |
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40 | (4) |
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Adverbial clauses: spoken English |
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44 | (1) |
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Adverbial clauses: subordinate clause or main clause? |
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45 | (3) |
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48 | (33) |
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Clause and text: introduction |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (5) |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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Clause and text: cohesion |
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55 | (26) |
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55 | (1) |
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Cohesion: orientation in place |
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55 | (1) |
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Cohesion: orientation in time |
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55 | (1) |
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Cohesion: orientation in time: tense and aspect |
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55 | (1) |
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Cohesion: co-reference and referent tracking |
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56 | (1) |
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Cohesion: coordination and subordination |
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57 | (1) |
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Cohesion: adverbials and conjunctions |
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57 | (1) |
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Clause and text: cohesion --- active, passive, middle |
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58 | (3) |
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Clause and text: discourse markers |
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61 | (1) |
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Clause and text: ellipsis |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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Clause and text: focus: special syntactic constructions |
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64 | (3) |
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Clause and text: focus: word order |
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67 | (1) |
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Clause and text: given and new |
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67 | (4) |
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Clause and text: non-finite clauses |
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71 | (1) |
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Clause and text: spoken and written text |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (6) |
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81 | (26) |
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Clause structure: introduction |
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81 | (1) |
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Clause structure: constituents |
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81 | (4) |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (3) |
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Clause structure: dependency relations |
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85 | (7) |
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Clause structure: hierarchical structure |
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92 | (3) |
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Clause structure: linearity and predicate-argument structure |
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95 | (2) |
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Clause structure: linearity and grammatical functions |
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97 | (4) |
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Clause structure: verb phrases |
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101 | (2) |
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Clause structure: integrated and unintegrated syntax |
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103 | (4) |
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107 | (5) |
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107 | (5) |
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112 | (13) |
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Complement clauses: complementisers |
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112 | (2) |
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Complement clauses: embedded interrogatives |
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114 | (5) |
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Complement clauses: mood and modality |
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119 | (2) |
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Complement clauses: gerunds, infinitives and meaning |
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121 | (1) |
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Complement clauses: noun complement clauses |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (3) |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (13) |
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Non-finite clauses: introduction |
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128 | (2) |
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Non-finite clauses: infinitives |
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130 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: free participles |
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131 | (2) |
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Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 1) |
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133 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: gerunds (Type 2) |
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134 | (2) |
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Non-finite clauses: reduced adverbials |
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136 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: reduced relatives |
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137 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: verb stem |
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137 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: with + NP |
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138 | (1) |
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Non-finite clauses: eight types or four? |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (29) |
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Nouns and noun phrases: introduction |
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141 | (10) |
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Nouns and noun phrases: common and proper |
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151 | (2) |
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Nouns and noun phrases: count and mass |
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153 | (5) |
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Countability: individuals and substances |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (1) |
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155 | (3) |
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Nouns and noun phrases: determinatives |
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158 | (6) |
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Nouns and noun phrases: pronouns |
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164 | (6) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases |
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170 | (10) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: introduction |
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170 | (1) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and particles |
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171 | (2) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions, transitive and intransitive |
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173 | (1) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional phrases, their distribution |
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174 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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Complements (or postmodifiers) of nouns |
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175 | (1) |
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Complements (or postmodifiers) of adjectives |
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175 | (1) |
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Complements of prepositions |
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175 | (1) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositions and meaning |
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176 | (2) |
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Prepositions and prepositional phrases: prepositional verbs |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (26) |
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Relative clauses: introduction |
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180 | (2) |
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Relative clauses: contact |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (2) |
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Relative clauses: infinitival |
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185 | (1) |
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Relative clauses: non-standard |
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186 | (1) |
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Relative clauses: propositional |
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187 | (1) |
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Relative clauses: restrictive and non-restrictive |
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188 | (2) |
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Relative clauses: shadow pronouns |
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190 | (3) |
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193 | (2) |
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Relative clauses: unattached |
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195 | (2) |
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Relative clauses: unintegrated |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (3) |
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Relative clauses: wh words as deictics |
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201 | (1) |
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Relative clauses: which as discourse connective |
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202 | (4) |
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206 | (18) |
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Sentences and clauses: introduction |
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206 | (2) |
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Sentences and clauses: clauses |
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208 | (2) |
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Sentences and clauses: complex sentences |
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210 | (1) |
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Sentences and clauses: compound sentences |
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211 | (1) |
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Sentences and clauses: main and subordinate clauses |
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212 | (4) |
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Sentences and clauses: sentence fragments |
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216 | (2) |
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Sentences and clauses: simple sentences |
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218 | (1) |
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Sentences and clauses: subordinate clauses: preposition or complementiser? |
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218 | (2) |
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Sentences and clauses: system sentence and text sentence |
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220 | (4) |
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224 | (44) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect: introduction |
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224 | (3) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: tense and aspect in English |
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227 | (2) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: future tense |
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229 | (3) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: middle construction |
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232 | (4) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: mood and modality |
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236 | (7) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: passive voice |
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243 | (2) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and adverbs |
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245 | (4) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and resultative |
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249 | (3) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: present perfect and simple past |
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252 | (2) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: progressive aspect |
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254 | (3) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: simple present |
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257 | (4) |
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Verbs and verb phrases: situation (lexical) aspect |
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261 | (7) |
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268 | (13) |
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Word classes: introduction |
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268 | (1) |
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Word classes: major and minor |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (3) |
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273 | (2) |
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275 | (4) |
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Word classes: syntactic criteria and sub-classes |
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279 | (2) |
Notes |
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281 | (10) |
Bibliography |
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291 | (3) |
Index |
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