Shakespeare's Grammar

 

List of symbols and abbreviation 

Acknowledgements

 

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
            1.1.0d Interrogatives
            1.1.0e 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
            1.1.4c Of construction
            1.1.4d 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)
            1.2.9 Complex pre-modifying structures
            1.3 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
            1.3.5 -ing forms as heads of noun phrase
            1.4 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
            2.0b Overview: The structure of the verb phrase
            2.1 The verb phrase head
            2.1.0 Overview
            2.1.1 Main auxiliary verbs
            2.1.1a Have and be
            2.1.1b Do
            2.1.2 Modal verbs
            2.1.2a Can/could
            2.1.2b May/might
            2.1.2c Must
            2.1.2d Shall/should
            2.1.2e Will/would, wi11/shall
            2.1.3 Tense and time
            2.1.3a Present time
            2.1.3b Past time
            2.1.3c Future time
            2.1.3d Mixed tense forms
            2.1.4 Aspect
            2.1.4a Simple past for present perfect
            2.1.5 Mood
            2.1.5a Indicative
            2.1.5b Subjunctive
            2.1.5c Imperative
            2.1.6 Finite versus non-finite
            2.1.7 Voice: active/passive, agency
            2.1.8 Verb morphology
            2.1.8a Present tense morphology
            2.1.8b Past tense morphology
            2.1.8c Participles
            2.1.8d Infinitive marking
            2.1.9 Negation
            2.2 Beyond the head
            2.2.0 Overview
            2.2.1 Subjects and agents
            2.2.2 Objects: direct and indirect
            2.2.3 Complements
            2.2.4 Adverbials

Glossary
List of references to Shakespeare's works
Index