An Entity of Type: book, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. It was first published by Longman in 1985. In 1991 it was called "The greatest of contemporary grammars, because it is the most thorough and detailed we have," and "It is a grammar that transcends national boundaries." The book relies on elicitation experiments as well as three corpora: a corpus from the Survey of English Usage, the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus (UK English), and the Brown Corpus (US English).

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. It was first published by Longman in 1985. In 1991 it was called "The greatest of contemporary grammars, because it is the most thorough and detailed we have," and "It is a grammar that transcends national boundaries." The book relies on elicitation experiments as well as three corpora: a corpus from the Survey of English Usage, the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus (UK English), and the Brown Corpus (US English). (en)
dbo:author
dbo:isbn
  • 9780582517349
dbo:mediaType
dbo:nonFictionSubject
dbo:numberOfPages
  • 1779 (xsd:positiveInteger)
dbo:publisher
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 37442847 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2889 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1124287643 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:author
  • Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, & Jan Svartvik (en)
dbp:isbn
  • 9780582517349 (xsd:decimal)
dbp:mediaType
  • Print (en)
dbp:pages
  • 1779 (xsd:integer)
dbp:pubDate
  • 1985 (xsd:integer)
dbp:publisher
dbp:subject
  • Comprehensive descriptive grammar of the English language (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dc:publisher
  • Longman
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. It was first published by Longman in 1985. In 1991 it was called "The greatest of contemporary grammars, because it is the most thorough and detailed we have," and "It is a grammar that transcends national boundaries." The book relies on elicitation experiments as well as three corpora: a corpus from the Survey of English Usage, the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus (UK English), and the Brown Corpus (US English). (en)
rdfs:label
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License