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Tables of Contents for English Grammar
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction: Four Conceptions of Grammar
1
6
Supplementary Exercises
4
3
PART I Prescriptive Grammar
7
50
1 Before the Prescriptive Period
8
12
The Classical Period (500 B.C.-500 A.D.)
8
5
The Middle Ages (500-1500 A.D.)
13
1
The Renaissance (1500-1650)
14
4
Supplementary Excercises
18
2
2 The Prescriptive Period
20
14
In England (1650-1800)
20
8
In the United States
28
4
Supplementary Exercises
32
2
3 Prescriptive Rules
34
23
Representative Rules
34
13
Assumptions Underlying Prescriptive Rules
47
3
Degrees of "Correctness"
50
1
Supplementary Exercises
51
6
Part II Descriptive Grammar
57
110
4 The Descriptive Period
58
14
The Historical-Comparative Period (1800-1900)
58
4
Structuralism (1900-1950)
62
3
Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism
65
5
Supplementary Exercises
70
2
5 Identifying Parts of Speech
72
15
The Need for Structural Tests
72
1
Identifying the Form Classes
73
6
Identifying the Structure Classes
79
6
Supplementary Exercises
85
2
6 Nouns and Pronouns
87
12
Subclasses of Nouns
87
4
Pronouns
91
5
Supplementary Exercises
96
3
7 Verbs and Verb Phrases
99
24
Main Verb Forms
99
4
Predicate Types in English
103
9
The Auxiliary System
112
4
Aspect and Voice
116
4
Supplementary Exercises
120
3
8 Modifiers of Nouns
123
16
Adjectives
123
2
Adjectival Nouns
125
2
Adjectival Prepositional Phrases
127
2
Adjectivals Based on Verb Forms
129
2
Relative Clauses
131
6
Supplementary Exercises
137
2
9 Modifiers of Verbs
139
11
Adverbs
139
2
Adverbial Prepositional Phrases
141
2
Adverbial Verb Phrases
143
2
Adverbial Clauses
145
3
Supplementary Exercises
148
2
10 Nominals
150
17
That-Clauses
150
4
Interrogative Clauses
154
3
Infinitives
157
3
Gerunds
160
3
Supplementary Exercises
163
4
PART III Generative Grammar
167
52
11 Generative Theory
168
10
Standard Theory (1950-1980)
168
4
Government and Binding Theory (1980-Present)
172
4
Supplementary Exercises
176
2
12 Standard Theory
178
24
Phrase Structure Grammar
178
6
Transformations
184
16
Supplementary Exercises
200
2
13 Government and Binding Theory
202
17
X-Bar Syntax
202
6
Wh-Movement and NP-Movement
208
2
Constraints on Movement
210
3
Case
213
1
Binding
214
3
Supplementary Exercises
217
2
Part IV Performance Grammar
219
44
14 Development of Performance Theories
220
15
Early Appeal of Generative Grammar
220
2
Disillusionment with Generative Grammar
222
4
Chomsky's Legacy
226
1
Alternatives to Generative Grammar
227
5
Supplementary Exercises
232
3
15 Sentence-Level Phenomena in Performance Grammar
235
11
Sociolinguistics
235
4
Psycholinguistics
239
4
Supplementary Exercises
243
3
16 Discourse-Level Phenomena in Performance Grammar
246
17
Readability
246
2
Schemata and Scripts
248
1
Cohesion
249
4
Given and New Information
253
3
Thematic Roles
256
2
Supplementary Exercises
258
5
Glossary
263
20
References
283
4
Answers to Selected Exercises
287
30
Name Index
317
2
Subject Index
319