By Thomas E. Payne
"Language is essentially a device for communique, but many textbooks nonetheless deal with English grammar as easily a collection of ideas and evidence to be memorised by means of rote. This new textbook is made for college kids who're pissed off with this technique and would prefer as an alternative to appreciate grammar and the way it really works. Why are there destiny tenses in English? What are auxiliaries and why are they so complicated? Why are English motion Read more...
content material: creation; 1. background; 2. Typology; three. The lexicon; four. Morphology --
the shapes of phrases; five. player reference; 6. activities, states and approaches; 7. easy options in English syntax; eight. complex ideas in English syntax; nine. Complementation; 10. amendment; eleven. Auxiliaries and the 'black gap' of English syntax; 12. Time and fact; thirteen. Voice and valence; 14. Clause combining; 15. Pragmatic grounding and pragmatically marked constructions.
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When the speaker wishes to downplay the responsibility of an AGENT, when the PATIENT is the more topical participant in the discourse, etc. Studying the meaning and use of grammatical structures provides answers to such questions as “Why does English grammar have two voices at all? ” 18 Understanding English Grammar Meaning/ semantics Form/ structure • Syntactic functions • Syntactic categories • Concepts that words and other linguistic structures evoke. Use/ pragmatics • How structures and meanings are deployed to accomplish communicative work.
This proposal has become quite influential in the field of language teaching, and provides a point of intersection between a linguistic perspective and the interests of English language professionals. At various points throughout this book, it will be useful to refer back to this framework, as different topics impinge more directly on the form, the meaning, or the use of particular structures and functions. The essence of Larsen-Freeman’s proposal is that grammatical structures are not isolated from their meanings or their uses.
Of course, there are many other threads, and some of these will be mentioned below also. However, understanding the four major threads will help the English language professional make sense of several otherwise perplexing features of Modern English. The four threads we will consider are: the Celtic thread, the Anglo-Saxon (Continental Germanic) thread, the Scandinavian (Northern Germanic) thread, and the Latin (Romance) thread. All of these threads originate within a very large family of languages known as Indo-European, so it is appropriate to consider English to be an Indo-European language (Jones 1798).