TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quirk, Randolph.
AU  - Sidney Greenbaum;Geoffrey Leech;Jan Svartvik;David Crystal
TI  - A comprehensive grammar of the English language
SN  - 9788131733431
AV  - PE 1106 .Q85 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - India
PB  - Pearson Education Limited
KW  - ENGLISH LANGUAGE
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter1. The English Language -- Chapter2. A survey of English grammar -- Chapter3. Verbs and auxiliaries -- Chapter4. The semantics of the verb and phrases -- Chapter5. Nouns and determiners -- Chapter6. Pronouns and numerals -- Chapter7. Adjectives and adverbs -- Chapter8. The semantics and grammar of adverbials -- Chapter9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Chapter10. The simple sentences -- Chapter11. Sentence types and discourse function -- Chapter12. Pro-forms and ellipsis -- Chapter13. Coordination -- Chapter14. The complex sentence -- Chapter15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses -- Chapter16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives -- Chapter17. The noun phrase -- Chapter18. Theme, focus and information processing -- Chapter19. From sentence to text
N2  - With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which result in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it
ER  -