Longman grammar of spoken and written English
作者: Douglas Biber[等]著;陈国华导读
出版社:外语教学与研究出版社,2009
简介: The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is an
entirely new grammar of American and British English-from the
language of conversation to the language of academic textbooks.
There are no made-up examples in this groundbreaking new-gramar.
The authors began. not with preconceived notions of the grmmar of
English. but with a huge bank of language data,the Longman
Corpus Network.
A six-year research project brought together the linguistic
expertise of an intenational author team-all acknowledged experts
in the field of corpus linguistics and grammar.
The result of this research is the present volume. Many
points of traditional grammar are confirmed. but now on the basis
of much larger amounts of statistical data than ever before. Some
aspects of traditional grammar are challenged by this book,and
some new findings. not even suspected before now,will surprise
and interest the reader.
What makes this book so special is that it turns English
inside out. Professor Douglas Biber's research team tagged and
parsed the structures in the Corpus. This analysis revealed the
degree to which different grammatical features of language vary
according to the type of language. The way language is used in
conversation is quite different from the waylanguage is used in
fiction,which in turn isoften very different from the
grammatical characteristics of newspapers or academic books.