Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
- Harlow : Longman, 1999.
- 1204 p. : gráfs.
Foreword by Randolph Quirk. - Endnotes. - Lexical index and Conceptual index.
Bibliography p. 1139.
Section A: Introductory: Introduction: a corpus-based approach to English grammar. -- Section B: Basic grammar: description and distribution. Word and phrase grammar. Clause grammar. -- Section C: Key word classes and their phrases: Nouns, pronouns, and the simple noun phrase. Verbs. Variation in the verb phrase: tense, aspect, voice and modality. Adjectives and adverbs. -- Section D: More complex structures: Complex noun phrases. The form and function and complement clauses. Adverbials. -- Section E: Grammar in a wider perspective: Word order and related syntactic choices. The grammatical marking of stance. Lexical expressions in speech and writing. The grammar of conversation.