Grammar for Grammarians
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.
