mor and syn tier

[Annick.DeHouwer]

I second Lise Menn's opinion wholeheartedly, and have in fact used Quirk
et al.'s Grammar in coding the data for my subject Kate (available through
CHILDES; see dehouwer.sit in http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/ftp/mac/biling/).
However, the very new Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English,
itself based on a 40 million words corpus, (by D. Biber, S. Johansson, G.
Leech, S. Conrad and E. Finegan) might be a good source, too.
--Annick De Houwer

 On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Lise Menn wrote:

> while I haven't worked directly with these tiers, for me the ultimate
> reference for English is Quirk et al.'s A Comprehensive Grammar of
> English.
>
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kirsten Hodge wrote:
>
> >
> > I am currently working on a large collection of narratives by seven year
> > olds.  The professor I work for (Dennis Molfese) had decided we should
> > include the mor and syn tiers on the files.  I am having trouble finding a
> > good book of descriptive English grammar for which to base these on
> > (especially the syntax tier).  The CHILDES book I'm working out of (the 2nd
> > edition 1995) doesn't tell much about the syn tier and includes only a few
> > codes.  I've been making up my own codes, but I'm basing all the syntax on
> > my own knowledge (which is pretty good - I'm getting my master's in
> > linguistics) and the few grammar books that I've found (which are more
> > prescriptive that descriptive).  Has anyone out there worked with the mor
> > and/or syn tiers?  If so, what did you use for your grammar reference?
> > Much thanks,
> > Kirsten Schaper
> > Developmental Neuropsychology Lab
> > Southern Illinois University
> > Carbondale, IL