This course is an introduction to the principles of syntax and to the basic concepts underlying theories of grammar. It examines the structure of phrases, clauses and sentences, and the functional relationship between parts of phrases and clauses. It concentrates on the fundamentals of syntactic analysis and arguments drawn from empirical evidence. By focusing on observation, description and practical analysis of a wide range of phenomena from English and other language data accessible to them, students will learn to appreciate the beauty of human language structures, acquire explanatory and argumentative skills, develop scienceforming capacities, and gain hands-on experience of tackling syntactic problems. They will also enhance selflearning abilities through on-line practice exercises and via Blackboard discussion forum.
This book serves for students major in both linguistics and teaching English as a second language, foreign language studies, general education, the cognitive and neurosciences, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. There are 12 chapters in this book, covering the general study of language; the study of grammar with morphology, the notions of constituency, syntactic categories, phrase structure trees, structural ambiguity, the infinite scope of language, and the X-bar grammatical patterns; semantics and pragmatics; phonetics; phonology; sociolinguistic study of language; language change; language acquisition; psychology of language and the neurology of language; fundamentals of computational linguistics, and writing.
This book is concerned with English syntax. This book introduces practical analysis of English sentences rather than linguistic theory. There are 11 chapters altogether. Chapters 1 to 2 introduce general ideas relevant to the analysis of sentences while simultaneously beginning the analysis itself. Chapters 4 to 5 give an overview of the simple sentence. Chapters 6 to 7 elaborates on details of the structure of simple sentences. Chapters 8 to 10 deal with different kinds of subordinate clause in the complex sentence. Chapter 11 discusses the background to and purpose of the kind of analysis presented in Chapters 1 to 10.
This is an introductory textbook on syntactic theory. It takes the students through most of the major issues in Principles and Parameters, from tree drawing to constraints on movement. Distinguished from other syntax textbooks, this book uses many Irish examples, and a supplementary discussion of alternative theoretical approaches like Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) or Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). This textbook is organized into 4 parts. Part 1 presents preliminaries such as generative grammar, structural relations. Part 2 discusses the base such as the X-bar theory, functional categories. Part 3 discusses movement such as Head-to-Head Movement, DP movement. Part 4 elaborates on advanced topics such as expanded VPs, ellipsis.
This book is an introduction to the major concepts and categories associated with the syntax. Starting with an overview of what syntax is, the book moves on to an explanation of word classes and then to a discussion of sentence structure in the world’s languages. Grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause are explained and thoroughly illustrated. The final chapter explains and illustrates the principles involved in writing a brief syntactic sketch of a language. Data from approximately 100 languages appears in the text, with languages representing widely differing geographical areas and distinct language families.
This is an introductory textbook on syntactic theory. It takes the students through most of the major issues in Principles and Parameters, from tree drawing to constraints on movement. Part 1 presents preliminaries such as generative grammar, structural relations. Part 2 discusses the base such as the X-bar theory, functional categories. Part 3 discusses movement such as Head-to-Head Movement, DP movement. Part 4 elaborates on advanced topics such as expanded VPs, ellipsis. This fourth edition The fourth edition features revised material throughout, including a new section on Chomsky's Merge and additional problem sets in every chapter, as well as new examples throughout the text.
This book explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. It introduces syntactic typology, syntactic description and the major typological categories found in the languages of the world; clarifies with examples grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause, including word classes and their syntactic properties, grammatical relations such as subject and object, case and agreement processes, passives, questions and relative clauses; features in-text and chapter-end exercises ; and highlights the principles involved in writing a brief syntactic sketch of language.
This book covers the general study of language, the study of grammar with morphology, the sentence patterns of language, semantics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, language change, language acquisition, and language processing. This eleventh edition includes new developments in linguistics and related fields, and has been reduced to ten chapters from the original twelve of earlier editions- the chapters on Computer Processing of Human Language and Writing have been eliminated, with some of the material on the history of writing incorporated into the chapter on language change. The primary concern has been basic ideas rather than detailed expositions as in previous editions.
This book introduces Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. This third edition, substantially updated, explains its fundamental concepts and provides a broad overview and history of the theory based on current approaches, providing an up-to-date picture of this rapidly changing model of syntactic theory. New material has been added throughout, including data on first and second language acquisition and the syntax of the developing Minimalist Program, such as Phase Theory, while retaining a foundation of Government/Binding Theory.
This book introduces English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory which is supported throughout with learning aids such as summaries, lists of key hypotheses and principles, extensive references, handy hints and exercises. It provides an intensive introduction to key background assumptions in syntactic theory, to how the syntactic component of a grammar works, and to the argumentation and critical evaluation skills, and a description of a range of phenomena in English syntax. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, including additional exercises and an entirely new chapter on exclamative and relative clauses.
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