A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

Published October 16th 2006 by Routledge – 448 pages

Series: Otto Jespersen

This book was first published in 1954.

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

Name: A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 4. Syntax (third volume) (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Otto Jespersen. This book was first published in 1954.
Categories: Grammar, Phonology, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics