Nicholas Sobin

Syntactic Analysis

The Basics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Designed for either classroom use or self-study, Syntactic Analysis fills a gap in the available literature by providing a short and hands-on guide to understanding syntactic systems, and provides the reader with a strong foundation for more advanced work in the field.

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Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: TheBasics focuses on bringing students with little background inlinguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works.

A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentencestructure, ideal for students who need to get up to speed on keyconcepts in the field
Introduces readers to the central terms and concepts insyntax
Offers a hands-on approach to understanding and performingsyntactic analysis and introduces students to linguisticargumentation
Includes numerous problem sets, helpfully graded fordifficulty, with model answers provided at critical points
Prepares readers for more advanced work with syntactic systemsand syntactic analyses

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338959
• ISBN-10: 1444338951
• Artikelnr.: 32568458

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Sobin is Professor of Language and Linguistics at The University of Texas at El Paso. He has published numerous articles on various topics in syntax in such journals as Linguistics Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and the Journal of Linguistics, and has held Visiting Scholar appointments at M.I.T. and Harvard University. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introductory Notes and References 1. Doing
Science with Language: Introductory Concepts 2. The 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" Appendix 1: Minor Grammatical
Categories Appendix 2: Argument Structures Index