e.g. The Oxford Dictionary and its shorter versions, Webster's New International Dictionary, and the English grammars of Curme, Jespersen, Kruisinga, Poutsma and Onions. A valuable compact presentation of standard grammar is given in Hornby, A. S., A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English.
2.
BloomfieldL.Language.London: Allen and Unwin, 1961, 266, 269.
3.
HarrisZ. S.“From Morpheme to Utterance”. Language, 22, 1946, 161–183; see also his Methods of Structural Linguistics. Chicago, 1951.
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Ibid., 161.
5.
Ibid., 163.
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Ibid., 165.
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HarrisZ. S.“Discourse Analysis”. Language, 28, 1952, 1–30; “Co-occurrence and Transformation in Linguistic Structure”. Language, 33, 1957, 283–340; “Strings and Transformations in Language Description”. University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics, 1961.
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ChomskyN.Syntactic Structures. 's-Gravenhage: Mouton and Co., 1957.
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“The Grammar of English Nominalizations”. Part IIInt. J. of American Linguistics, 26, 3, July 1960.
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“A Model and an Hypothesis for Language Structure”. Proc. American Philosophical Society, Vol. 104, 5.
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HarwoodF. W.MitchellB. G.An Introduction to English Syntax. Hobart: Oldham, Beddane and Meredith, 1957. This text is now out of print and a revision is under consideration. The authors would be glad to send to interested teachers of English grammar an outline of the proposed revision and would welcome comments on it.
