Academic English Grammar By Ahmad Sharifzadeh. When we are talking about a language, we are talking about the four skills — listening or better to say watching, reading, writing, and speaking — the first two of which are receptive skills and the second two are productive skills the two language components (i.e., grammar and vocabulary). This book, dedicated to language components (lexicon & grammar), has a different look at grammar. Although theoretically grammar and lexicon are distinct components of languages, they are in practice interwoven to a great extent so that applying grammatical rules depends on the type of words used in a sentence and in a broader context. Their inextricable dependency on each other forced the author to take account of them both in this single volume.
In the author’s view, grammar is the same as a map (plan) in carpet weaving, which makes it possible to put the linguistic knots (i.e., words) at the intersection of the weft (syntagmatic axis) and the wrap (paradigmatic axis) syntagmatic and paradigmatically so that the intended meaning is conveyed verbally or in a written form. Grammar (or better to say, syntax) lets us both produce and understand an unlimited number of sentences that are correct syntactically using a limited number of grammatical (syntactic) rules. Keep in mind that although sentences might be correct grammatically, they might be semantically or pragmatically incorrect.
Any language is the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Taking into account the fact that the readers of the book are familiar with the rudimentary concepts, this book aimed at familiarizing them with the more complicated aspects, especially those confronted in the academic and advanced texts and contexts. In the first chapter of this book, with a slightly different view to language, the lexicon including word formation, word classification, parts of speech, affixes, and the like are in detail dealt with. In the second chapter, syntactic structures (grammatical rules) are clarified using examples. Academic English Grammar By Ahmad Sharifzadeh.
