A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
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Contributions
- Quirk, Randolph. - Contributor
- David Crystal - Indexer
Publication
1985 - Longman, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
444,750 words, Guess
Page Count
1,779 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecomprehensivegra00quir
- ISBN-100582517346
- ISBN-139780582517349
- LibraryThing492841
- Goodreads902158
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- Library of Congress Control Number84027848
- Open LibraryOL2864840M
Classifications
- DDC428.2
- LCCPE1106 .C65 1985
Description
From the time when we started collaborating as a team in the 1960s, we envisaged not a grammar but a series of grammars. In 1972, there appeared the first volume in this series, A Grammar of Contemporary English (GCE). This was followed soon afterwards by two shorter works, A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE) and A University Grammar of English (UGE), published in the United States with the title A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English. With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which results in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it. Yet, as with our other volumes since GCE, it is also a grammar that incorporates our own further research on grammatical structure as well as the research of scholars worldwide who have contributed to the description of English and to developments in linguistic theory. - Preface.
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