RT Web Page DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 663882765 LA English. UL http://site.ebrary.com/id/10408496 T1 The linguistic structure of modern English A1 Brinton, Laurel J., Brinton, Donna., Brinton, Laurel J., PB John Benjamins Pub. Co. PP Amsterdam; Philadelphia YR 2010 SN 9789027288240 9027288240 1282721682 9781282721685 9786612721687 6612721685 AB This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The emphasis is on empirical facts of English rather than any particular theory of linguistics; the text does not assume any background in language or linguistics. In this newly revised edition numerous example sentences are taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. A full glossary of key.