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Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by by John P Broderick
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Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by by John P Broderick
Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by John P Broderick
Modern English Linguistics showed how transformational grammar developed out of American structuralist morphology and syntax. It then went on to describe English grammar in some detail using the so-called "extended standard theory" of transformational grammar described in Noam Chomsky's book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Despite considerable changes in Chomsky's ideas in the 1980s and 1990s (as for example, government and binding theory), linguistics textbooks continued to be published well into the 1990s that were still based on the Aspects model.
 
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Tags: grammar, transformational, English, linguistics, Modern
Set Sail! 3 - Vocabulary and Grammar Practice
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Set Sail! 3 - Vocabulary and Grammar PracticeThe Set Sail! Series focuses on getting young learners to enjoy communicating in English through a wide variety of activities in all four skills. Its pupil-centred approach motivates young learners, thus ensuring a positive experience in the English language classroom.
 
This book contains additional exercices to practise vocabulary and grammar presented in the Pupil's Book.
 
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Tags: Vocabulary, learners, English, Grammar, young, practise, vocabulary, English
English Grammar by Richard Morris
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English Grammar by Richard MorrisEnglish Grammar
 by Richard Morris

So many slighting remarks have been made of late on the use of teaching grammar as compared with teaching science, that it is plain the fact has been lost sight of that grammar is itself a science. The object we have, or should have, in teaching science, is not to fill a child's mind with a vast number of facts that may or may not prove useful to him hereafter, but to draw out and exercise his powers of observation, and to show him how to make use of what he observes... And here the teacher of grammar has a great advantage over the teacher of other sciences, in that the facts he has to call attention to lie ready at hand for every pupil to observe without the use of apparatus of any kind while the use of them also lies within the personal experience of every one.

Dr Richard Morris.
 
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Tags: science, teaching, grammar, Richard, teacher
The Teacher's Grammar Book
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The Teacher's Grammar BookThe Teacher's Grammar Book
The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition
introduces the various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing. Designed for students who are preparing to become English or language arts teachers, as well as for credentialed teachers who want an easy-to-use guide to questions of methods, grammar, and teaching, this overview of basic English grammar includes the following major topics: a brief history of grammar, teaching grammar, grammar and writing, traditional grammar, transformational-generative grammar, cognitive grammar, dialects, black English, and Chicano English.
New in the reorganized and fully updated Second Edition:
*new chapter giving a brief history of grammar and grammar instruction;
*new chapter on best practices--strategies and techniques that actually work;
*expanded chapter on cognitive grammar--a topic not found in other texts of this nature;
*expanded chapter on dialects;
*summary and evaluation of the minimalist program (Noam Chomsky's most recent revision of transformational-generative grammar)--a topic unique among texts of this kind; and
*reduced discussion of transformational grammar.
 
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Tags: grammar, chapter, writing, Grammar, Teachers
Language Networks, The New Word Grammar
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Language Networks, The New Word GrammarLanguage Networks, The New Word Grammar
 
This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows that language has the same internal organization as other areas of knowledge such as social relations and action schemas, and reveals the rich links between linguistic elements and contextual categories. Professor Hudson presents a new theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language. He puts this to work in a series of extended explorations of morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Every step of his argument and exposition is illustrated with examples, including the kind mainstream theory finds it hard to analyse. He introduces the latest version of his influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language and as a key to understanding the associated operations of the mind.
 
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Tags: language, theory, Grammar, internal, knowledge