tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 2

And since any such study must inevitably involve collaborative teamwork, some examination of Biber's management skills in organizing this huge enterprise will not come amiss either* given the size and diversity of the American and Brilish corpora analysed and the need to coordinate the activity at centres many thousands of kilometres apart. | xiv CONTENTS IN DETAIL Simple coordinators distribution 5entence turn-initial coordinators Correlative coordinators distribution Subordinators Complex subordinators Correlative subordinators 3 Overlap between subordinators and other word classes Wh-words Existential there The negator not The infinitive marker to Numerals Cardinals Ordinals Numerals distribution Major function word classes distribution Survey of inserts Phrases and their characteristics Constituency Form v. syntactic role of phrases Phrases in text samples Types of phrase Noun phrases The syntactic roles of noun phrases Discontinuous noun phrases Verb phrases The syntactic role of verb phrases Discontinuous verb phrases Auxiliary-only verb phrases Adjective phrases The syntactic roles of adjective phrases Discontinuous adjective phrases Adverb phrases The syntactic roles of adverb phrases Prepositional phrases Extended prepositional phrases The syntactic roles of prepositional phrases Stranded prepositions Stranded prepositions in independent wh-questions Genitive phrases Numeral phrases Complex numbers Types of numerical expressions Approximate numbers Approximating numeral expressions Embedding of phrases Coordination of phrases Phrasal v. clausal coordination Coordination tags 115 81 83 Distribution of coordination tags 116 Simple v. complex phrases 117 85 85 85 h Clause grammar 119 86 LrL Clause v. non-dausal material 120 Use of clauses v. non-clausal 88 material in text samples 120 88 Major clause elements 122 89 Subject 5 123 89 Semantic roles of subjects 123 89 Dummy subjects 125 90 Subjects in non-finite clauses