Author: James D. McCawley
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: syntactic, english, phenomena, vol, volume
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1992-07-30
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0226556247
ISBN-13: 9780226556246
This second edition of James D. McCawley’s classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley’s approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior speci
Author: Timothy Shopen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: language, description, syntactic, typology, amp, lexicon, volume, grammatical, categories
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $45.99
ISBN-10: 0521588553
ISBN-13: 9780521588553
This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world’s languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each new concept introduced. Althoug
Author: Timothy Shopen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: language, syntactic, description, typology, amp, structure, clause, volume
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 052158857X
ISBN-13: 9780521588577
This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world’s languages. Clear and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and deixis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Volume 1 covers the parts-of-speech systems, word order, noun phrases, clause types, speech act distinc
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: structures, syntactic
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 3110172798
ISBN-13: 9783110172799
Noam Chomsky’s first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system,
Author: Edith Moravcsik
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: theory, syntactic, introduction
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2006-06-06
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0826489443
ISBN-13: 9780826489449
This textbook provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to syntactic theory. The author shows how the diversity of syntactic theories, which at first seems confusing, can be approached by examining how each deals with conflicting data. This approach helps the student to understand how syntactic theories are related to each other, what they necessarily have in common, and in what ways they actually differ. Theories introduced here include Transformational Generative Grammar, Relational Grammar, Word Grammar, Functional Grammar, and Optimality Theory, amongst others. An Introduction to S
Author: James D. McCawley
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: english, phenomena, syntactic
Number of Pages: 834
Published: 1998-04-25
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0226556271
ISBN-13: 9780226556277
This second edition of James D. McCawley’s classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley’s approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior sp
Author: Edith A. Moravcsik
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: theory, syntactic, introduction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-06-19
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0826489435
ISBN-13: 9780826489432
This textbook provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to syntactic theory. The author shows how the diversity of syntactic theories, which at first seems confusing, can be approached by examining how each deals with conflicting data. This approach helps the student to understand how syntactic theories are related to each other, what they necessarily have in common, and in what ways they actually differ. Theories introduced here include Transformational Generative Grammar, Relational Grammar, Word Grammar, Functional Grammar, and Optimality Theory, amongst others. An Introduction to S
