Introduction
0.1 Development of Grammars
0.2 Types of Grammar
0.3 Grammar in Relation to Other Levels of Linguistic Structure
Chapter 1. Some Basic Concepts
1.1 Linguistic Prescription
1.2 Problems of Linguistic Prescription
1.3 Prescription and Description in Conflict
1.4 Synthesis
Chapter 2. Traditional Grammar
2.1 Survey of Traditional Grammar
2.2 Key Concepts of Traditional Grammar
Chapter 3. Transformational-Generative Grammar
3.1 Generative Grammar
3.2 Transformational grammar
Chapter 4. Systemic Functional Grammar
4.1 Why is it Called Systemic Functional Linguistics?
4.2 Register
4.3 Individual Text and Language Systems
4.4 Everyday and Academic Language
Chapter 5. The Clause in English
5.1 Form and Function of the Clause in English
5.2 Subject
5.3 Verb
5.4 Direct Object
5.5 Indirect Object
5.6 Object Complement
5.7 The Subject Complement
5.8 The Adverbial and Adverbial Complement
5.9 Grammatical Ambiguity
Chapter 6. The Phrase in English
6.1 The Noun Phrase
6.2 The Verb Phrase
6.3 The Adjective Phrase
6.4 The Adverb Phrase
6.5 The Prepositional Phrase
Chapter 7. The Structure of Words and Word Classes in English
7.1 The Structure of Words
7.2 Word Classes
Chapter 8. Coordination and Subordination
8.1 On the Concept of Clause and Sentence
8.2 Forms of the Subordinate Clause
8.3 Functions of the Subordinate Clause
Chapter 9. The Grammatical Foundations of Style
9.1 Metafunction
9.2 Grammar around and beyond the Clause
9.3 Grammatical Metaphor
Chapter 10. Functional Re-evaluation of Grammatical Forms in Context
10.1 Potential Polysemy in Grammar
10.2 Synonymy in Grammar
10.3 Grammatical Doublets
Chapter 11. Pedagogic Granunar and Second Language Acquisition
11.1 Language Teaching Methodology and Grammar Instruction
11.2 Second Language Acquisition Theories and Teachability of Grammar
11.3 Role of Explicit Grammar Instruction
11.4 Target Structures of Explicit Grammarlnstruction
11.5 Considerations in Grammar Books from the Learner' s Viewpoint
11.6 Design of a Pedagogic Grammar
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