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Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press,Cambridge
March 2005
Please order from your local bookseller
A Student’sIntroduction to
EnglishGrammar
www.cambridge.org/huddleston Inspection copies available eSee inside for more details e
A new textbook from Rodney Huddlestonand Geoffrey K. Pullum, authors of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. PullumUniversity of Queensland University of California, Santa Cruz
www.cambridge.org/huddleston
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A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar is a groundbreaking new textbookon English sentence structure for students in colleges and universities. Based onthe authors’ highly acclaimed earlier work, The Cambridge Grammar of theEnglish Language, it is up to date and accessible, and contains exercises andspecial usage notes.
Contents1. Introduction; 2. A rapid overview; 3. Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood; 4. Clausestructure, complements, and adjuncts; 5. Nouns and noun phrases; 6. Adjectives andadverbs; 7. Prepositions and preposition phrases; 8. Negation and related phenomena; 9. Clause type: asking, exclaiming, and directing; 10. Subordination and content clauses;11. Relative clauses; 12. Grade and comparison; 13. Non-finite clauses and clauseswithout verbs; 14. Coordination and more; 15. Information packaging in the clause; 16. Morphology: lexemes and their inflectional forms; Further reading; Glossary; Index.
March 2005 247 x 174 mm 324pp 75 exercises0 521 61288 8 Paperback £14.99
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2004 winner of the prestigious Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America
The Cambridge Grammar of the English LanguageRodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum
“No other grammar of English is at once as comprehensive and as systematically and lucidlyinformed by present-day linguistic theory.”
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“The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language is for the twenty-first century what Jespersen’sA Modern English Grammar, and Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik’s A Contemporary EnglishGrammar were for the twentieth.”
Terry Langendoen, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona
2002 247 x 174 mm 1860pp £120.00 Hardback 0 521 43146 8
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1 The traditional class of prepositions 130
2 Extending the membership of the class 131
3 Further category contrasts 136
4 Grammaticised uses of prepositions 139
5 Preposition stranding 140
6 The structure of pps 142
7 pp complements in clause structure 145
8 Prepositional idioms and fossilisation 149
Prepositions make up a much smaller class of lexemes than the open
categories of verb, noun, adjective and adverb. There are only about a hundred
prepositions in current use. Traditional grammars list even fewer than that, but
we don’t follow the tradition on this point. Although all words traditionally clas-
sified as prepositions are classified as prepositions in our treatment too, we
recognise a good number of other prepositions, formerly classified as adverbs, or
as ‘subordinating conjunctions’. We begin this chapter with an account of the
category of prepositions as traditionally understood, and then explain why we
have chosen to expand it.
We give in [1] a sampling of the words that (in at least some of their uses) belong
to the category of prepositions.
[1] above across after against at before behind
below between beyond by down for from
in into of off on over round
since through to under up with without
These words share the following properties.
� (a) They take N Ps as complement
In general, words are traditionally analysed as prepositions only if they have
complements with the form of nps. In the following pairs, for example, tradi-
tional grammar accepts the underlined words in [a] as prepositions, but not those
in [b]:
1 The traditional class of prepositions
7 Prepositions and preposition phrases
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• A true 21st-century guide to grammar
• Features include exercises,glossary, bullet-points, boxed notes, and web support
• Building on the authors’ previous authoritative reference grammar
Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge
March 2005
Please order from your local bookseller
A Student’sIntroduction to
EnglishGrammar
www.cambridge.org/huddlestonInspection copies availableeSee inside for more detailse
A new textbook from Rodney Huddlestonand Geoffrey K.Pullum,authors of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language