Introduction to live grammar : a grammar of English centered on the verb

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). A must-own souvenir for all Beatles fans and songwriters! The Beatles Lyrics is an amazing tribute to the most influential band in pop history. For the first time ever together in print, it publishes the lyrics to 192 songs by the Fab Four. Also includes a complete discography, lots of great full-page photos throughout the book, and a song title index. Literature review -- Otto Jespersen's Essentials of english grammar (1933 (1960)) -- Charles Fillmore's Some problems for case grammar (1971) -- The FrameNet project developed by C. Fillmore and collaborators at Berkley (Version 07, July 2001) -- Noam Chomsky's Government and binding theory as presented by Cheryl A. Black (1999) -- R. M. W. Dixon's A semantic approach to grammar (1991 (2005)) -- So, what is different about live grammar? -- The corpus of this study is a book of The Beatles' songs -- Methodology and nomenclature -- Theoretical framework -- Concept of sentence -- At the pragmatic level modality reflects the intention of the speaker -- At the semantic-syntactic level verb is the essential grammatical category -- Protonouns establish case relationships with verbs -- At the syntactic level protonoun is the basic as opposed to essential (verb) grammatical category in a sentence -- Protonouns are the nuclei of a constituent -- Constituents are the morphosyntactic equivalent of verb cases -- The use or absence of grammatical connectors between categories in a sentence is a topic that will also be explored -- Grammatical categories -- Verb is a word conjugated for a person, number and tense -- Verbal is a non-conjugated verbal form -- Protonoun is a noun or a word that acts like it : this is an umbrella category -- Noun is a primary grammatical category : it can be substantive, adjective or adverb -- Articles and demonstratives are a secondary category -- Adjective is a secondary category, a word that qualifies or quantifies substantive nouns exclusively -- Adverb is a secondary category when it intensifies nouns : it is a tertiary category when it intensifies adjectives and adverbs -- Verb 2 is a protonoun, a primary category that can depend on a verb 1 or a noun -- Connectors or links occur at the morphological level, between particular grammatical categories -- Prepositions are links that occur to the left of a noun to introduce a verb case at the syntactic level : at the morphological level, they occur to the right to complement the meaning of a verb or a noun -- Conjunctions are links that generally connect the same grammatical category -- Relative pronouns are protonouns that reproduce a noun anaphorically, and form a case relationship with a verb 2 (v2) -- Proverbs are protonouns akin to relative pronouns, but it names a link that reproduces a v2 cataphorically, while answering a question about a verb 1 (VI) -- Link pronouns are protonouns that link a VI to a v2, and establish case relationships with both verbs -- Relationships between grammatical categories -- Relationships between verbs and protonouns, at the syntactic level -- Relationships between categories, at the morphosyntactic level -- By preposition -- By conjunction -- By juxtaposition -- By apposition -- Relationships between categories at the semantic level -- Complementation -- Reproduction -- Subordination -- Table 1 summarizes and exemplifies the functioning of these relationships in english using examples from different songs in the corpus -- Research results -- Verb cases -- Entities or person cases -- Circumstantial cases -- Noun classes and their modifiers -- Substantive noun, including pronoun, infinitive and gerund, and their modifiers -- Adjective noun, including past participle and its modifiers -- Adverb noun and its modifiers -- Semantic relationships between nouns -- Complementation by preposition -- Complementation by apposition -- Reproduction by apposition -- Mechanisms of relationship between grammatical categories -- Preposition -- Conjunction -- Juxtaposition -- Apposition -- Verbal constituents -- Special constructions -- Disputed constituency decisions -- Passive voice -- Conclusions -- -- Appendix I : verb case relationship matrix The fool on the hill -- She's leaving home -- Ask me why -- With a little help from my friends ---- Appendix II : colors for the appointment in Samarra-- Appendix III : Glossary Appendix IV : guide of analysis of the song-- Bibliography. A must-own souvenir for all Beatles fans and songwriters! The Complete Beatles Lyrics is an amazing tribute to the most influential band in pop history. For the first time ever together in print, it publishes the lyrics to 192 songs by the Fab Four. Also includes a complete discography, lots of great full-page photos throughout the book, and a song title index. --Publisher description

a Must-own Souvenir For All Beatles Fans And Songwriters! The Beatles Lyrics Is An Amazing Tribute To The Most Influential Band In Pop History. For The First Time Ever Together In Print, It Publishes The Lyrics To 192 Songs By The Fab Four. Also Includes A Complete Discography, Lots Of Great Full-page Photos Throughout The Book, And A Song Title Index.