Essentials of English grammar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24199335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Otto Jespersen |
| Year | 1964 |
| Pages | 387 |
| Publication date | 1964-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Essentials of English grammar (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press (PUBLISHER) |
| Open Library | OL5918547M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
"A one-volume grammar embodying the principles explained in 'The philosophy of grammar' and partly carried out in the four volumes of my 'Modern English grammar.'"--Preface.
‘The axial rethink’ – making sense of language
Establishing verb agreement with disjunctively conjoined subjects
Who are we? The natural semantics of pronouns
Conceptions of categorization in the history of linguistics
Language universals, discourse pragmatics, and semantics
The multichannel reality of discourse
Declarative constant polarity tag questions
A three-dimensional analysis of non-standard english
Where Do Classical Chinese Nouns Come From
Attributive clauses in Danish – and the relative irrelevance of relative clauses
It's easier in German, isn't it? The acquisition of tag questions in a bilingual child
Subject and agent in emerging grammars
Textual categories and Russian morphology
Determiners
Some shifting vowels and stress patterns in English
My object pronouns are nominative and reflexive
Abandoning apicals
How d'you say ‘consume’
Teachers' questions, pupils' answers
I amn't
On the preferred form of the double object construction
On the goals, principles, and procedures for prescriptive grammar
Pronominal disagreements
Discourse functions of five English sentence types
Investigating acceptability in Australian English
Standard and Super-Standard English
In defense of a four‐case deep case hypothesis
Vocatives and third‐person imperatives in English
Two‐level representations for natural language
Subordinate clauses and discourse
Studies in the derivation of predicative structures
Modals and speaker ‐ hearer perspectives in Korean
The inferential perfect in Scandinavian
Contextual Motivation and Working Memory
Is English resumption different in appositive relative clauses
Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar
Making Syntax of Sense
Negation without Head-Movement
The Split Infinitive in Middle English
La Notion de Compétence linguistique
La Notion de Compétence Linguistique
Case Theory and its Application to Language Teaching
The Use and Translation of Chinese Passive Voice into English
We Shall Fight
Degrees and grammar
Conversion in English
The Prosaics of Weak Grammar
Identifying absolute subjects
Reflections on the grammatical category of the than element in English comparative constructions
Zero that -clauses in the history of English. A historical sociolinguistic approach (1424–1681)
Facts and issues
Whiz deletion and adjective‐preposing
Studies in the derivation of predicative structures
Syntaxe et sémantique chez Tesnière
Foundations for a theory of dialogue structure
Characterization in narrative
Tracking the incidence of formulaic expressions in everyday speech
Linguistic theory and actual language
Sex and gender in linguistics
The communicative function of English verb number
On affectedness
The persistence of tradition in grammar
Processing Determinism
Action and Aspect in English Verb Expressions
Formal foundations for semantic theories of nominalisation
Konzeptionierungen des Prädikativums in der Indogermania
The Visible Politics of Intersubjectivity
Variation as a testing ground for grammatical theory
Anticipating Negation
Context and cognition in Functional Discourse Grammar
Generic 'you' and gender in Hebrew journalistic interviews
From information to emotion
Impression management on reality TV
Inclusive generic person in women's discourse in Israeli Hebrew and Negev Arabic
Three marked theme constructions in spoken English
How We Manage Social Relationships Through Answers to Questions
States and changes-of-state
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation
The sentence as a linguistic unit
Towards a functional description of cleft constructions
The effect of context on dative position
The syntax of modal constructions in English
English
Response Systems
Cross-Linguistic Temporal Reference
Negation and the history of African American English
Speech act, politeness, the Yamuna Kachru model
The Semantics of Mood and the Syntax of the Let’s-construction in English
To predict L2 writing quality using lexical richness indices
Cognitive implications of labels for voices
Discourse in context
Why do L2 learners choose the implicit marker for object relative clauses when it is optionally explicit
The grammar of English pronouns
Attributive adjective ordering and the complement-modifier distinction
Syntax and the single mother
A new approach to Negative Concord
Specification and English tenses
Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia
One Cheer for the Grammar Mavens
A-Prefixing in Linguistic Atlas Project Data
| Unique citing works | 108 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2025 (64) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 73 |