目录 Texts How to use this book Acknowledgements Permissions Abbreviations 1 The Noun Phrase 1.1 Introduction: the structure of the noun phrase 1.2 Premodification 1.3 Postrnodification 1.4 Articles 1.5 Pronouns denoting the first-person singular 1.6 Pronouns: the first-person plural 1.7 Pronouns: the second person (1) 1.8 Pronouns: the second person (2) 2 The Verb Phrase 2.1 Introduction: the structure of the verb phrase 2.2 Narrative time, story time and tense 2.3 Simple and compound verb phrases 2.4 Uses of the present tense 2.5 The passive 2.6 The imperative 2.7 Non-finite verb forms: 'to + base' form (the infinitive) 2.8 Non-finite verb forms: '-ing' forms 2.9 Non-finite verb forms: time and tense 3 The Clause 3.1 Introduction to syntax 3.2 Analysing clause structure 3.3 The relationship between S and V 3.4 Relative size of syntactic elements: light X elements 3.5 Obligatory X elements (transitivity) 3.6 Expansion of X elements 3.7 Heavy S and X elements before the verb 3.8 Placement of adverbials in the clause 3.9 Main clauses 3.10 Coordination 3.11 Subordination and the sentence 3.12 Ambiguity in syntax 3.13 Prepositions 3.14 Interrogatives 4 Text structure 4.1 Introduction to text structure: cohesion and coherence 4.2 Information structure: given to new 4.3 Ellipsis 4.4 Cohesion and coherence 4.5 Coherent models: thought 4.6 Coherent models: other languages 4.7 Coherent models: speech 5 Vocabulary 5.1 Introduction to vocabulary 5.2 Register: use of romance vocabulary 5.3 Register: use of 'long' words 5.4 Word-formation: bound morphemes 5.5 Romance 5.6 Semantic fields 5.7 Collocation 5.8 Synonyms Index
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