| Title : | Grammar Patterns : nouns and adjectives : 2 | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Collins Cobuild, Author | | Publisher: | London : HarperCollins Publishers | | Publication Date: | 1998 | | Series: | The Cobuild series from The bank of English | | Pagination: | xvi, 592 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-00-375068-3 | | General note: | Includes apendix (p.547-550)
Includes index (p.553-592)
| | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | English grammar
| | Class number: | 415 | | Abstract: | When Collins COBUILD Grammar Patterns 1: Verbs was published, I commented that it was 'one of the most important and useful publications' in the COBUILD range. This volume is the second in the innovative Grammar Patterns series, dealing with patterns of nouns and adjectives. To use words correctly and effectively, you have to arrange them in appropriate patterns. The patterns that are special to a particular word you will find in Collins COBUILD English Usage; this book, on the other hand, deals with the patterns associated with groups of words. It gives you a comprehensive account of the noun and adjective patterns of English, using the evidence of The Bank of English which now stands at 350 million words of current written and spoken English. The presentation of patterns is not new, of course, in language teaching. In the fifties and sixties the leading reference book for teachers and learners was A.S. Hornby's A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English (OUP1954). In that book, the principal grammatical patterns of the language were set out using simple formulas, and the typical vocabulary for each pattern was shown in examples. Then for a number of years patterns went out of fashion in linguistics, but the advent of COBUILD in the eighties brought back an appreciation of the importance of the environment of a word to its usage, even its meaning. This last point is very exciting, because it shows that these pattern grammars are much more than convenient ways of presenting the regularities of usage. During the early research days of COBUILD, I became convinced that the meaning of a word was closely related to the choice of which words occurred nearby, and their position. Fifteen years ago this was actually difficult to think about; now the evidence is in front of you. Through the reliability and objectivity of the computer evidence, words can be subdivided according to pattern, and patterns can be seen to correlate with meaning -that is to say, words with similar patterns have similar meanings. For example, in Section 38 you will find the pattern consisting of a noun followed by the preposition over and a noun group. The nouns with this pattern fall into several different meaning groups, but many of them are used to talk about reactions (the 'fuss' group) 01 feelings (the 'grief group). The noun group following the preposition shows the cause of the reaction or feeling. | | Contents note: | Introduction Advice for teachers Glossary; Nouns; Types of noun; Nouns with special uses; Nouns with determiners and modifiers; Nouns followed by a clause; Nouns followed by a preposition; Noun patterns with be; Noun patterns with it; Noun patterns with there; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14273 |
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