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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sobin, Nicholas. Syntactic analysis. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (DLC) 2010029414 (OCoLC)649701960 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Sobin |
ISBN: | 9781444390704 1444390708 1444390694 9781444390698 |
OCLC Number: | 705929274 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Doing Science with Language: Introductory Concepts -- 2. Structure and Classification of Words -- 3. Determining the Structure of Sentences -- 4. Rules of Sentence Structure: A First Approximation -- 5. Assigning Meaning in Sentences -- 6. Some Category-Neutral Processes -- 7. How Structure Affects Pronoun Reference -- 8. Complex Verb Forms -- 9. Real vs. Apparent Sentence Structure -- 10. Generalizing Syntactic Rules -- 11. Functional Categories -- 12. Questions, Relative Clauses, and WH Movement -- 13. NP Movement -- 14. Things to Come: Various Aspects of "Current Theory." |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Sobin. |
Abstract:
This succinct, practical introduction to understanding sentence structure is ideal for students with little background in linguistics. Introducing the reader to the central terms and concepts in the field of syntax, it explains how to understand and operate syntactic analysis, as well as how to approach linguistic argumentation.
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"Ultimately, I would argue that this book succeeds with its goals by laying a broad, basic, and clear foundation in the philosophy of generative syntax, thus allowing undergraduates to learn the nature of scientific inquiry with languages in a trimester/quarter system or supporting graduate students with little or distant background to read and respond to primary literature with more confidence and understanding." (Linguist, 27 August 2012) Read more...
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