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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; The Author; Dedication; Contents; List of symbols and abbreviations; Acknowledgement; INTRODUCTION; 0.1 Abbott's Grammar and Shakespeare's Grammar; 0.2 Using Shakespeare's Grammar: how to find things; 0.3 Citation of texts: sources and conventions; 0.4 Shakespeare's linguistic context; 0.5 Further reading; PART 1: THE NOUN PHRASE; 1.0a Overview: The stylistics of noun phrase use; 1.0b Overview: The structure of the noun phrase; 1.1 Pre-head elements: Determiners; 1.1.0 Overview; 1.1.0a Articles; 1.1.0b Demonstratives; 1.1.0c Possessives |
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1.1.0d Interrogatives1.1.0.e Quantifiers; 1.1.0f Numerals; 1.1.0g Ordinals; 1.1.1 Development of determiners from adjectives; 1.1.2 Determiners used in different combinations or in different senses; 1.1.2a A/an in the sense of one/the same; 1.1.2b Each/every/one for each of/every one of/none of; 1.1.2c Each and everyone + noun treated as plurals; 1.1.3 Deletion of determiners: the, a/an, possessives; 1.1.3a Deletion of the; 1.1.3b Deletion of possessive determiner; 1.1.3c Deletion of a/an; 1.1.4 Possession: 'genitive' constructions; 1.1.4a Possessive pronouns; 1.1.4b s-genitive |
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1.1.4c Of construction1.1.4d Double genitive; 1.1.4e Absolute genitive; 1.1.4f Zero genitive; 1.1.4g His genitive; 1.1.4h Split genitive; 1.1.4i Orthography; 1.2 Pre-head elements: Modification; 1.2.0 Overview; 1.2.1 Placement of adjectival phrases; 1.2.2 Adjectives: scope; 1.2.2a Location of effect; 1.2.2b Subjectivization; 1.2.2c Passivized; 1.2.3 Adjectives: comparative and superlative; 1.2.4 Adjectival inflections; 1.2.5 Adjectives: compound adjectives; 1.2.6 Nouns as pre-modifiers; 1.2.7 Verb forms as pre-modifiers; 1.2.8 Other parts of speech as pre-modifiers (conversion) |
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1.2.9 Complex pre-modifying structures1.3 The head; 1.3.0 Overview; 1.3.1 Nouns: plural inflections; 1.3.2 Pronouns; 1.3.2.0 Overview; 1.3.2a First person singular pronouns; 1.3.2b Second person singular pronouns; 1.3.2c Third person singular pronouns; 1.3.2d First person plural pronouns; 1.3.2e Second person plural pronouns; 1.3.2f Third person plural pronouns; 1.3.2g Anomalous pronouns; 1.3.2h Reflexive pronouns; 1.3.2i Dative pronouns (ethical dative); 1.3.2j Pronouns as nouns; 1.3.3 Adjectives as heads of noun phrases; 1.3.4 Determiners as heads of noun phrases |
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1.3.5 -ing forms as heads of noun phrase1.4 Post-head elements; 1.4.0 Overview; 1.4.1 Prepositional phrases; 1.4.2 Relative clauses; 1.4.2a Who relatives; 1.4.2b Which relatives; 1.4.2c That relatives; 1.4.2d Zero relatives; 1.4.2e Relative pronoun/conjunctive but; 1.4.2f Determiners as antecedents of relatives; 1.4.2g Head-shifted relatives; 1.4.2h Headless relatives; 1.4.2i Relative pronouns and verb agreement; 1.4.3 Noun phrases as post-head modification (apposition); 1.4.4 Postpositive adjectival phrases; PART 2: THE VERB PHRASE; 2.0a Overview: The stylistics of verb phrase use |
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A comparative reference guide to Shakespeare's grammar, based on a complete revision of an extremely elderly but still much-cited volume, Abbott's Shakespearean Grammar, first published in 1869 and still regarded by default as an essential component of Shakespeare research. This volume meets the identified need for an authoritative and systematic grammar of Shakespeare which takes account both of current linguistic developments and of the current state of knowledge about Early Modern English and enable editors and readers both to understand and to contextualise Shakespeare's use and manipulati |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd |
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Grammar
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
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Shakespeare plays.
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Literary Criticism -- Shakespeare.
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English drama
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English language -- Early modern -- Grammar
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Language and languages
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Grammatik
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Engels.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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1336212578 |
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9781336212572 |
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9781474243384 |
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147424338X |
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