Table of Contents

PART I. Prescriptive Grammar
1. Before the Prescriptive Period
2. The Prescriptive Period
3. Prescriptive Rules

PART II. Descriptive Grammar
4. The Descriptive Period
5. Identifying Parts of Speech
6. Nouns and Pronouns
7. Verbs and Predicates
8. Modifiers of Nouns
9. Modifiers of Verbs
10. Nominals

PART III. Generative Grammar
11. Generative Theory
12. Standard Theory
13. Government and Binding Theory
14. Minimalism

PART IV: Contextual Grammar
15. Development of Contextual Grammar
16. Sentence-Level Phenomena
17. Discourse-Level Phenomena

Includes Glossary, References, Answers to Selected Exercises, Name Index, and Subject Index. Instructor’s Manual available.