English Syntax and Argumentation, Fifth Edition

✍ Scribed by Bas Aarts

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 418
• Series: Modern Linguistics
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style with many 'hands-on' in-text and chapter-final exercises. At the end of each chapter there is a section with suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works at the end of the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Part I: Function and Form
1. Introduction
2. Function
3. Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases
4. More on Form: Clauses and Sentences
5. The Function-Form Interface
Part II: Elaboration
6. Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles
7. Cross-categorial Generalisations: X-bar Syntax
8. More on Clauses
9. Movement
10. Tense, Aspect and Mood
Part III: Argumentation
11. Syntactic Argumentation
12. Constituency: Movement and Substitution
13. Constituency: Some Additional Tests
14. Predicates and Arguments Revisited
Part IV: Application
15. Information Packaging
16. Grammatical Indeterminacy
17. Case Studies
Glossary
Reference Works
Bibliography
Answer Key
Index