Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

✍ David Adger 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or undergraduates. It will also be useful for those

Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (Core

📁 Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (Core Linguistics)

✍ David Adger 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or undergraduates. It will also be useful for those i

The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Min

📁 The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach

✍ Sue Brown 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 The Center for the Study of Language and Informati 🌐 English

This book offers a Minimalist analysis of certain syntactic phenomena in Russian associated with negation. These phenomena include the distribution of morphologically negative words and the pattern of Negative Concord they exhibit (whereby multiple occurrences of negative words are interpreted as on

Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach

📁 Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

✍ Ian Roberts, Anna Roussou 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

The phenomenon of grammaticalization--the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created--has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics in recent years. This book shows how this approach leads to a number of important conceptual and theoretical issues concerning the natu

Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

📁 Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

✍ Andrew Radford 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Radford is well known for his comprehensible textbooks of generative syntax. This book is very helpful for beginners to get access to Chomsky's revolutionary ideas in his minimalist program (MP), which is radically different from his previous versions of grammar. What is the particular of this boo

Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

📁 Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction

✍ Andrew Radford 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Foreign language teaching and research press 🌐 English

This textbook is a concise, readable introduction to current work in syntactic theory, particularly to Chomsky's Minimalist program. It gives an overview of theoretical concepts and descriptive devices. The discussion is based on varieties of English (Modern Standard, Belfast, Shakespearean, Jamaica