generic reference

NPs with generic reference refer to a class as a whole or to an entire class: Belgian beer is sold all over the world; The telephone was invented in 1874; Children enjoy playing outdoors; A cat can live for up to 20 years. (AEG Ch. 3)

genitive of measure

A genitive of measure is a genitive form that is used to indicate distance, duration or value: This is my two cents’ worth; It’s a mile’s walk to the campus; In a month or two’s time, we’ll know more. (AEG Ch. 3)

genitive, see determinative genitive, classifying genitive, genitive of measure, elliptic genitive and double genitive

gerund, see -ing participle

grammatical

A structure is grammatical (or well-formed) when, descriptively (rather than prescriptively) speaking, it derives from the rules underlying the language. Otherwise, it is ungrammatical. Linguists use the sign * to show that a given example is ungrammatical (or ill-formed): the man whose wife is pregnant is grammatical; *the man whose the wife is pregnant is ungrammatical. (AEG Ch. 1)

grammatical markers of cohesion (grammatical discourse markers)

Grammatical markers of cohesion include different kinds of nominal reference (primarily anaphoric and cataphoric reference) and ellipsis. Spoken or written discourse that does not flow (or is ‘disfluent’) often results when these markers are not used optimally. Grammatical markers of cohesion conspire with lexical markers of cohesion to establish logical links with what occurs before and after a clause. (AEG Ch. 6)