Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by Robert Freidin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications provides a systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences. Assuming no background in linguistic analysis, the book gives students a working knowledge of syntactic analysis from a minimalist perspective. Step by step it explains the fundamentals of phrase structure, movement and deletion. Well-placed exercises throughout reinforce and extend the concepts and analyses presented in the text, allowing readers to gain understanding of progressively complex issues at a comfortable pace. Much of the data comes from English, but crucial examples are also drawn from a range of other languages, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Welsh and Greek.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Summary
Title page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 The computational nature of human language
2 Knowledge of language as an object of inquiry
3 Categories and constituents
4 Phrase structure theory
5 The structure of clauses
6 The syntax of Spec-TP
7 Head movement and the structure of root clauses
8 Wh-movement
9 Ellipsis: unpronounced syntax
Notes
Glossary
References
Index