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Books

place of 

author

date

title of book

publication

publisher

Biber, D. (1995). Dimensions of Register Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(APA)

Biber, D. (1995) Dimensions of Register Variation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

(Harvard)

Biber, D. Dimensions of Register Variation. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

(MLA)

Papers in academic journals

volume 

and 

author                 date            title of article                                                                journal

issue pages 

Sinclair, J. (1996). The search for units of meaning. Textus, 9(1), 75–106.

Articles/chapters in books

author

date       title of article/chapter 

name(s) of book editor(s)

Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). The problem of speech genres. In T. W. McGee & C. Emerson & M. Holquist

(Eds.), Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (pp. 60–102). Austin: University of Texas Press.

title of book  

page numbers      place of       publisher

of the article

publication 

Abbreviations used

The following abbreviations often appear in textual and bibliographical

references:

& = and

cf. = compare

edn. = edition

ed(s). = editor(s)

et al. = and other authors 

ibid. = the same place in a work

already referred to

ms. = manuscript

no. = issue number 

op. cit. = the work already referred

to

p. = page

pp. = pages 

Trans. = translator/translated

by/translation 

vol. = volume

294 | Grammar and academic English

Cambridge Grammar of English

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Introduction to word classes and 

phrase classes

Introduction

155

Nouns

156

Nouns: forms 156a

Nouns: types 156b

Nouns: syntactic characteristics 156c

Noun phrases

157

Noun phrases: form 157a

Noun phrases: functions 157b

Verbs

158

Verbs: forms 158a

Verbs: types 158b

Verbs: characteristics 158c

Verb phrases

159

Verb phrases: forms 159a

Verb phrases: tensed and non-tensed forms 159b

Verb phrases: aspect 159c

Verb phrases: voice 159d

Verb phrases: mood 159e

Adjectives

160

Adjectives: forms 160a

Adjectives: gradability 160b

Adjective phrases

161

Adjective phrases: forms 161a

Adjective phrases: attributive and predicative 161b

Adverbs

162

Adverb phrases

163

Adverb phrases: forms 163a

Adverb phrases: functions 163b

Prepositions

164

Prepositional phrases

165

Conjunctions

166

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Introduction to word classes and phrase classes