An Introduction to English Sentence Structure - Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements - Jon Jonz
Preliminaries Focus on Language as Representation Processes Participants Circumstances Some Words Left Over Practice with Terminology
An Introduction to English Sentence Structure - Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements - Jon Jonz
Jon Jonz [+]
Texas A & M University
Jon Jonz is Professor Emeritus of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he taught General Linguistics, Modern Grammar, Structure of English, Language Acquisition and Processing and Psycholinguistics. He is the author of studies in language testing, first- and second-language discourse features, bilingualism, text cohesion and basic writing. His work in language testing won the international TESOL Distinguished Research Award. He was the longtime editor of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics and, with John W. Oller, Jr. is the coauthor and coeditor of Cloze and Coherence.
Description
The author explains his intention of steering a middle course between functional and structural approaches to language with the focus of the book being on studying how clauses and clause combinations work to make sentences, paying only limited attention to segments of language larger than that. Explains the structure of book, the source of literary examples used, bracketing conventions and the purpose of activities/exercises and goes on to introduce the concepts of event structure, processes,participants, and circumstances through an analysis of a short segment of written English.