Critical Account of English Syntax

Affiliated lecturer, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge Jim Miller is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he had a personal chair in Linguistics and Spoken Language. He works on the syntax and discourse organisation of spoken and written language, grammar and semantics, standard and non-standard languages, and literacy.

• IntroductionGrammaticalityAdjectives and Adjective PhrasesAdverbs and Adverb PhrasesAdverbial ClausesClause and TextClause StructureCleftsComplement ClausesConstructionsNon-Finite ClausesNouns and Noun PhrasesPrepositions and Prepositional PhrasesRelative ClausesSentences and ClausesVerbs and Verb PhrasesWord Classes

Brown and Miller are observers par excellence of what Henry Sweet called the "real life of language". Their fascination with constructions that typify spoken and non-standard Englishes set this new book on English syntax apart. It will become a landmark in the writing of grammars for the twenty-first century.