Douglas
Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan
Longman
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Суперобложка, футляр (2004)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Longman, 2004 г.
Суперобложка, футляр, 1232 стр.
ISBN 0-582-23725-4
Язык:
Английский
The "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English"
is an entirely new grammar of American and British English - from the language
of conversation to the language of academic textbooks. There are no made-up examples
in this groundbreaking new grammar. The authors began, not with preconceived notions
of the grammar of English, but with a huge bank of language data, the Longman
Corpus Network.
A six-year research project brought together the linguistic
expertise of an international author team - all acknowledged experts in the field
of corpus linguistics and grammar.
The result of this research is the present
volume. Many points of traditional grammar are confirmed, but now on the basis
of much larger amounts of statistical data than ever before. Some aspects of traditional
grammar are challenged by this book, and some new findings, not even suspected
before now, will surprise and interest the reader.
What makes this book so
special is that it turns English inside out. Professor Douglas Biber's research
team tagged and parsed the structures in the Corpus. This analysis revealed the
degree to which different grammatical features of language vary according to the
type of language. The way language is used in conversation is quite different
from the way language is used in fiction, which in turn is often very different
from the grammatical characteristics of newspapers or academic books.
But why
is it different? The "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English"
takes its reader into new and uncharted territory for a grammar, by suggesting
the reasons why we choose a particular structure in a particular context.
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Entirely corpus-based grammar of English;
# Over 350 tables and graphs showing
the frequency of constructions across different registers, from conversation to
fiction to academic prose;
# 6,000 authentic examples from the Longman Corpus
Network;
# British English and American English grammar compared;
# New
and challenging findings;
Is the differences between spoken and written English.
