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OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Introduction
Grammar and the study of language
Varieties of English
English grammar and corpora
British National Corpus (BNC)
Elements of grammar
Verbs and the verb phrase
SARA (
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GML-
A
ware
R
etrieval
A
pplication)
WordCruncher
Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase
Adjectives and adverbs
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
The simple sentence
Adjuncts, disjuncts, conjuncts
Coordination and apposition
Sentence connection
The complex sentence
The verb and its complementation
The complex noun phrase
Focus, theme, and emphasis
Wrap-up
© 1998
Dr. See-Young Cho
Anglistische und Allgemeine Linguistik
,
Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation
,
Fak I
,
Technische Universität Berlin
,
Germany