TAILIEUCHUNG - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 19

At a later stage, pre-final draft chapters were presented to the Longman Linglex Advisory Committee, where again a strong impetus to improve the book's content and presentation was provided by valuable and (often) trenchant critiques from a group of leading British linguists, under the chairmanship of Lord Quirk: Rod Rotitho, Gillian Brown, David Crystal, Philip Scholfield, Katie Wales, John Wells, and Yorick Wilks. Alan Tonkyn offered useful advice and information on C-units (Chapter 14). | i SECTION C Key word classes and their phrases Nouns pronouns and the simple noun phrase Overview of nominals in discourse 230 The basic structure of noun-headed phrases 240 Types of nouns 241 Determiners 258 Number 284 Case 292 Gender 311 Noun formation 318 The role of pronouns in discourse 327 Personal pronouns 328 Progressive pronouns 340 Reflexive pronouns 342 Reciprocal pronouns 346 Demonstrative pronouns 347 Indefinite pronouns 351 Other pronouns 355 See page xiii for contents in detail 230 NOUNS PRONOUNS AND THE SIMPLE NOUN PHRASE Overview of nomináis in discourse Noun phrases vary greatly both in structure and complexity and they can have a wide range of syntactic roles . In this chapter we are particularly concerned with the characteristics of the word classes which make up the heads of typical noun phrases . nouns and pronouns. We also consider here the characteristics of simple noun phrases consisting of determiner plus head or of a single noun or pronoun. More complex noun phrases are dealt with in Chapter 8. Use of nomináis in discourse By way of placing noun phrases in a wider perspective we will begin by looking more broadly at how nomináis are used. Nominal elements include not only phrases headed by a noun or pronoun but all constituents which appear in positions characteristic of noun-headed structures including for example phrases with adjectives used as noun phrase heads and complement clauses . loiter for the main part of this chapter we concentrate on noun phrases in the narrow sense. Density and types of nominal elements We have bracketed all nominal elements in the four passages below. Note that there may be several layers of embedding with nominal elements occurring as constituents in higher-level noun phrases. Text sample 1 face-to-face conversation A WeU I thought you were going to talk to me about Christmas presents B I

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