English Parts of Speech

Opava, 2003 - 122 pages.
Since the present textbook is meant for students of English and prospective teachers of English, its aim is to provide an account of English morphology which would be both founded on theory and also applicable in practice. To meet both the academic and the practical demands, we based our text on the systemic approach as offered by R. Quirk and S. Greenbaum in their University Grammar of English, and supplemented it by drawing on less academic, but more practical grammars by L. G. Alexander, A. J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet, L. Duskova et al., C. E. Eckersley and J. M. Eckersley, and others, who put more stress on the functional or the communicative aspect of the grammatical phenomena under consideration. We are well aware of the fact that in English it is rather difficult to draw a dividing line between morphology and syntax, nevertheless we are convinced that our English Parts of Speech will give Czech students an opportunity to study a subsystem of the English language in a way they are more familiar with than any other.