An Introduction to English Sentence Structure - Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements - Jon Jonz
Preliminaries Embedded Wh- Clauses Practice with Terminology Analyzing and Reporting Multiclausal Sentences Sentences for Analysis
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 chapter provides an extended look at the way that noun groups act as docking mechanisms for clauses, creating the nested-boxes effect that called embedding.This chapter builds on earlier chapters by combining three familiar ideas: a Word groups have edges and main words.; b Words, word groups, and phrases can sometimes act like nested dolls. You can often take the lid off one, only to encounter another waiting for you right inside the first; c Wh- markers enter into a coreference relationship with an information gap