Preface
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Preface - An Introduction to English Sentence Structure |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Steven Jones; University of Manchester; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | English; Composition |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | English; sentence structure |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Composition; P301-301.5; Modern English Language; PE1001-1693 |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials of functionalism. The book starts from the premise that the structure of language reflects the structure of events in everyday experience. By contrast, grammars that are more structural in nature often begin with gross facts about language structure, such as the observation that clauses can be divided into subjects and predicates. The book's premise reflects the fundamental Hallidayan principle that language simultaneously codes for three dimensions of structure: clause as representation, clause as exchange, and clause as message. This approach has the effect of situating the study of language in the student's familiar world of ideas, relationships, and discourses. An Introduction to English Sentence Structure blends insights from three prominent modern schools of grammatical thought (functionalism, structuralism, and generativism) using functionalism as the philosophical and organizational motif. It focuses on the representational function of language, encouraging students to use their knowledge of the way the world works in order to understand how language works. The approach taken is hybrid: It assumes that form matters, and in this sense it is structural. It also assumes that form follows function, and in this sense it is functional. As its subtitle suggests, this book is concerned with the argument structure of clauses, the boundary markers of clause combinations, and the syntactic and experiential resources that permit language users to supply the content of empty categories, which are the missing elements. A free instruction manual is available to qualified instructors for downloading from this site. View Manual. Contact Adoption to request access. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Feb-2014 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | Preface; author's preface |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19945 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.19945 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; An Introduction to English Sentence Structure |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |