A Grammar of contemporary English
A Grammar of contemporary English
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现代英语语法
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10.2307/323848
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1974
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R. Quirk
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这本重要著作的出版满足了对整个英语句法范围进行最新调查的需要。尽管它未能对整个系统进行完美平衡的处理，但它触及了所有基本主题，并深入处理了当前感兴趣的一些关键问题，例如案例、省略和信息焦点。就连出版商的说法也得到了令人惊讶的证实。它“构成标准参考语法”的说法是相当有道理的。最近的研究，包括作者自己的研究，都非常有效地融入了“积累的语法传统”。但它是否是“有史以来对英语语法最全面、最全面的共时描述”还有待商榷。熟悉普茨马作品的人都不会同意这一点。想要学习基本语法的高级外国学生或英语母语人士会发现其中一些部分适合他们的需要，例如有关限制性和非限制性关系从句的课程，尽管即使在这里，一些解释也需要非常深入的研究。大多数章节更像是教师或语言学家的高级教科书。其组织和观点给人一种精心策划的大学讲座的印象，并辅以图表、图表和列表。一个很好的例子是助词和动词短语的课程，它以一组例句开始，展示“应该看到”和“碰巧看到”在各种转换和扩展下表现不同。在解释了基本概念并举例说明之后，如通常的参考书一样，给出了词汇动词、半助动词、运算符以及类似列表和范式。本章的一个特别有用的特点是情态助词的概述及其不同含义的示例。
The publication of this important volume fills the need for an up-to-date survey of the entire scope of English syntax. Though it falls short of a perfectly balanced treatment of the whole system, it touches upon all the essential topics and treats in depth a number of crucial problems of current interest such as case, ellipsis, and information focus. Even the publishers’ claims are vindicated to a surprising degree. The statement that it “constitutes a standard reference grammar” is reasonably well justified. Recent investigations, including the authors’ own research, are integrated into the “accumulated grammatical tradition” quite effectively. But whether it is “the fullest and most comprehensive synchronic description of English grammar ever written” is arguable. No one acquainted with Poutsma’s work would agree with that. Very advanced foreign students o r native speakers of English who want to learn about basic grammar will find some of thel sections suitable for their needs, such as the lesson about restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses, though even here some of the explanations require very intensive study. Most of the chapters are rather like an advanced textbook for teachers or linguists. The organization and viewpoint give the impression of a carefully planned university lecture supplemented by diagrams, charts, and lists. A good example is the lesson on auxiliaries and verb phrases, which starts with a set of sample sentences demonstrating that “should see” and “happen to see” behave differently under various transformations and expansions. After the essential concepts are explained and exemplified-lexical verb, semi-auxiliary, operator, and the like-lists and paradigms are given as in the usual reference work. A particularly useful feature of this chapter is the outline of modal auxiliaries with examples of their divergent meanings.