A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 7. Syntax
, by Jespersen,Otto; Haislund,Niels
- ISBN: 9780415402552 | 0415402557
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/5/2006
This book was first published in 1954.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Abbreviations and List of Books Quoted in Vols. II-VII | p. 1 |
| Word-Classes | p. 41 |
| Introduction | |
| Substantives | |
| Adjectives | |
| Verbs | |
| Adverbs | |
| Sentence-Structure and Word-Order | p. 53 |
| Principles | |
| Central Part of the Sentence | |
| Front-Position of Object | |
| Front-Position of Predicative | |
| Preposition at the End | |
| Anaphoric Repetition | |
| Front-Position of Tertiary | |
| Place of Tertiaries (apart from the cases dealt with above) | |
| Tertiary between S and V | |
| Time | |
| Quantifier Tertiaries | |
| Special Cases | |
| Overlapping | |
| Imperative | |
| Infinitive | |
| Participles | |
| Place of the Object | |
| Tertiaries with Verbs | |
| Sentence-Structure. Concluded | p. 107 |
| Sentences with the Empty there | |
| Front-Part Left Out | |
| Middle Part Left Out | |
| End Left Out | |
| Inarticulate or Semi-Articulate Sentences | |
| Person | p. 125 |
| Introduction | |
| First Person | |
| Second Person | |
| Third Person | |
| Indirect Speech | |
| Person in Verbs | |
| They + Numeral. Them as an Adjunct | |
| It | |
| A. Anaphoric it | |
| B. Preparatory it | |
| Cleft Sentences | |
| D. Unspecified it | |
| The Generic Person | |
| Reflexive | |
| Simple Pronouns in a Reflexive Sense | |
| Reflexive Pronouns as Regimens of Prepositions | |
| Reflexive Possessives | |
| Non-Reflexive Use of Self-Pronouns | |
| Sex and Gender | p. 174 |
| General Remarks | |
| Substantives | |
| Animals | |
| Plants | |
| Pronouns | |
| Animate and Inanimate | |
| Case | p. 219 |
| Introduction | |
| Case in Pronouns | |
| Extraposition | |
| Apposition | |
| Relative Attraction | |
| Preposition and Conjunction | |
| Notional Subject | |
| Loosely Connected Nexus | |
| Position | |
| Before the Verb | |
| After the Verb. Predicative | |
| After the Verb | |
| Subject | |
| Case in Pronouns (Continued) | p. 262 |
| Phonetic Influences | |
| Final remarks | |
| Case in Nouns | p. 281 |
| Introduction | |
| Use of the Common Case | |
| Common Case as Tertiary | |
| Tertiaries of Measure | |
| Tertiaries of Time | |
| Tertiaries of Space | |
| Tertiaries of Manner | |
| Pairs of Words | |
| First thing | |
| "Sixpence an ounce" | |
| Case (Continued) | p. 306 |
| Possessive, Genitive, and Use of Of. Possessive of Third Person Plural | |
| Possessive of it | |
| My, thy: mine, thine, etc. | |
| Use of the Genitive and of Possessive Pronouns | |
| Genitives as Primaries | |
| Other Employments of Of | |
| Partitive | |
| Specializing | |
| Appositional of | |
| Comparison | p. 342 |
| Form | |
| Orthographical Changes | |
| Introduction to Classification | |
| Monosyllables | |
| More than One Syllable | |
| Sibilants, etc. | |
| Adverbs | |
| Group Comparatives, etc. | |
| Regular instead of Irregular Comparison | |
| Comparatives from Prepositions, and Superlatives in most | |
| Comparison (Continued) | p. 367 |
| Double Comparison | |
| Parallel Increase | |
| Change of Vowel, etc. | |
| Meaning | |
| Gradual Increase | |
| Latent Comparatives | |
| The Three Degrees | |
| A Very High Degree | |
| Latin Comparatives and Superlatives | |
| Strengthening | |
| Determination and Indetermination (The Articles) | p. 403 |
| Introduction | |
| Forms of the Articles | |
| Border Cases | |
| Prosiopesis | |
| Headlinese | |
| Syntax | |
| Stages of Familiarity | |
| Stage I. Complete Unfamiliarity (or Ignorance). The Indefinite Article | |
| Meaning of Substantives with the Indefinite Article. A in Book-Titles | |
| Other Uses of A | |
| Distributive | |
| The Indefinitive Article before Words Generally Used as Proper Names | |
| Indefinite Article with Quantifiers | |
| Cardinals | |
| Unification | |
| Mass-Words | |
| Shades of Meaning of Mass-Words with the Zero Article | |
| Plurals | |
| Names of Languages | |
| Zero with Substantives in Certain Grammatical Functions | |
| Object with Zero | |
| Zero with Predicatives | |
| Zero in Prepositional Phrases | |
| Zero in Enumerations and Pairs of Words | |
| Conflict between Articles | |
| Articles before Junctions | p. 471 |
| Various Junctions | |
| Superlatives and Ordinals as Secondaries | |
| Stage Two. The Definite Article | p. 479 |
| Contextual and Situational Basis | |
| Typical the | |
| Generic Use of the | |
| Distributive Use | |
| Familiar the | |
| The in Exclamations | |
| The before Comparatives | |
| Articles before Superlatives and Ordinals | |
| Adjectives as Primaries | |
| All | |
| Both | |
| The Which, etc. | |
| Stage Three. Zero | p. 529 |
| Address | |
| Familiar Persons | |
| Legal Terms, etc. | |
| Meals | |
| Institutions | |
| Town, bed | |
| Names of Periods and Dates | |
| Proper Names | p. 544 |
| Introduction | |
| Personal Names | |
| Place-Names | |
| River-Names | |
| Oceans, Seas, Channels, Straits, and Lakes | |
| Countries, etc. | |
| Islands | |
| Mountains and Mountain Ranges | |
| Towns | |
| Parks | |
| Streets and Roads | |
| Buildings | |
| Books, Newspapers, and Periodicals | |
| Typical and Honorific The before Personal Names | |
| Titles and Other Common Names Connected with Personal Names | |
| Personification | |
| Adjectives before Proper Names | |
| Quasi-Proper Names | |
| Quantifiers | p. 580 |
| Introduction | |
| Numerals | |
| Foreign Numerals | |
| Uncertainty of Number | |
| Ordinals, Fractions | |
| Distributive Use of Numerals | |
| 'Nothing' | |
| Once, Twice, Thrice | |
| Pronouns of Totality | |
| Adjectives | |
| Survey of Pronominal Quantifiers | |
| Mood | p. 623 |
| Introduction | |
| Indicative and Subjunctive | |
| Form | |
| Conditional Clauses | |
| Temporal Clauses | |
| Wishes | |
| Intention or Purpose | |
| Content-Clauses | |
| Concessive Clauses | |
| Indirect Speech | |
| Indirect Questions | |
| Indefinite Relative Clauses | |
| Imaginative were | |
| Technical Terms | p. 648 |
| General Index | p. 664 |
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