Incluye índice alfabético.

Bibliografía: p. [476]-484.

1. The English language. — 2. A general framework. — 3. Verbs and auxiliaries. — 4. The semantics of the verb phrase. — 5. Nouns and determiners. — 6. Pronouns. — 7. Adjectives and adverbs. — 8 The semantics and grammar of adverbials. — 9 Prepositions and prepositional phrases. — 10. The simple sentence. — 11. Sentence types and discourse functions. — 12. Pro-forms and ellipsis. — 13. Coordination. — 14. The complex sentence. — 15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses. — 16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives. — 17. The noun phrase. — 18. Theme, focus, and information processing. — 19. From sentence to text.

Student's Grammar of the English Language is a shorter and revised version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, the widely acclaimed definitive grammar of modern English on which the authors worked in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Avartvik. The Structure of the parent book has been preserved so that reference to it can easily be made, but this version takes particular account of the needs of students who require depth of treatment and also clear presentation with detailed exemplification. A Student's Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics, and text linguistics.