A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

by Otto Jespersen

Overview

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135664350
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Otto Jespersen

Table of Contents

1. Introductory

2. Present tense

3. Auxiliaries of the perfect and pluperfect

4. Relations between the present and the perfect

5. Relations between the perfect and the preferit

6. The pluperfect

7. Tenses of the verbids

8. Tenses and auxiliaries in the passive

9. Imaginative use of tenses

10. Imaginative tenses continued

11. Indirect speech

12. The expanded tenses

13. Expanded tenses continued

14. Expanded tenses concluded

15. Will

16. Will. Continued

17. Shall

18. Shall. Concluded

19. Would

20. Should

21. Will, shall, would, should in indirect speech

22. Notional suvey

23. Predicatives after particles