Author: Liliane Haegeman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134958617
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.
A Modern Course in English Syntax
Author: Liliane Haegeman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134958617
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134958617
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.
The Modern Course in English
Author: Steadman Vincent Sanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
English Grammar
Author: Mireia Llinàs i Grau
Publisher: Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona
ISBN: 9788449004414
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona
ISBN: 9788449004414
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Modern Syntax
Author: Andrew Carnie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139495046
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139495046
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English
Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027225869
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This textbook introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which should encourage readers to use linguistic arguments. It focuses on syntactic analysis and evidence. It also looks at sociolinguisic and historical reasons behind prescriptive rules.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027225869
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This textbook introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which should encourage readers to use linguistic arguments. It focuses on syntactic analysis and evidence. It also looks at sociolinguisic and historical reasons behind prescriptive rules.
Understanding Sentence Structure
Author: Christina Tortora
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118659740
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed. This practical guide excites and empowers readers by guiding them step by step through each chapter with intermittent exercises. In order to capitalize on the reader's confidence as a personal authority on English, Understanding Sentence Structure assumes an inclusive definition of English, taking dialect variation and structures common amongst millions of English speakers to be a fact of natural language. Situates grammar as part of what the student already unconsciously knows Presupposes no prior instruction, not even in prescriptive grammar Begins analyzing sentences immediately, with the "big picture" (sentences have structure, structure can be ambiguous) and moves through levels of complexity, tapping into students' tacit knowledge of sentence structure Includes exercise boxes for in-chapter practicing of skills, side notes that offer further tips/encouragement on topics being discussed, and new terms defined immediately and helpfully in term boxes Applies decades of findings in syntactic theory and cognitive science, with an eye towards making English grammar accessible to school teachers and beginning students alike Understanding Sentence Structure: An Introduction to English Syntax is an ideal book for undergraduates studying modern English grammar and for instructors teaching introductory courses in English grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118659740
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed. This practical guide excites and empowers readers by guiding them step by step through each chapter with intermittent exercises. In order to capitalize on the reader's confidence as a personal authority on English, Understanding Sentence Structure assumes an inclusive definition of English, taking dialect variation and structures common amongst millions of English speakers to be a fact of natural language. Situates grammar as part of what the student already unconsciously knows Presupposes no prior instruction, not even in prescriptive grammar Begins analyzing sentences immediately, with the "big picture" (sentences have structure, structure can be ambiguous) and moves through levels of complexity, tapping into students' tacit knowledge of sentence structure Includes exercise boxes for in-chapter practicing of skills, side notes that offer further tips/encouragement on topics being discussed, and new terms defined immediately and helpfully in term boxes Applies decades of findings in syntactic theory and cognitive science, with an eye towards making English grammar accessible to school teachers and beginning students alike Understanding Sentence Structure: An Introduction to English Syntax is an ideal book for undergraduates studying modern English grammar and for instructors teaching introductory courses in English grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
English Syntax
Author: Jong-Bok Kim
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts"--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts"--Publisher's description.
Introduction to English Syntax
Author: Jim Miller
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748633626
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key FeaturesCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748633626
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key FeaturesCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided.
The Structure of Modern English
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027225672
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027225672
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.
ENGLISH SYNTAX
Author: Giovanny Irawan, M.Hum
Publisher: Media Nusa Creative (MNC Publishing)
ISBN: 602462087X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
There have been many books on English syntax available in the market. They were written in English for students of English around the world. Few books on Indonesian syntax have been written in Indonesian. However, a book on English syntax by Indonesian writers has not yet been available, let alone for Indonesian students of English at Kanjuruhan University of Malang. Considering this fact, we dare write a little book on English syntax. This little book was written on the basis of our students’ work on English syntax. A lot of input has been obtained after many years of teaching English syntax. The given data which become the raw materials for this little book were then compiled, and re-set under several headings. This little book falls into three big parts. Each part treats different topics which are then elaborated into several chapters. The first part deals with syntactic structures of modification, which are termed as phrases in grammar. The second part is about syntactic structures of predication and complementation which are crystallized into five basic sentence patterns where grammatical functions play their roles. The last part is concerned with semantic roles. The roles are divided into participants, processes, and circumstances
Publisher: Media Nusa Creative (MNC Publishing)
ISBN: 602462087X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
There have been many books on English syntax available in the market. They were written in English for students of English around the world. Few books on Indonesian syntax have been written in Indonesian. However, a book on English syntax by Indonesian writers has not yet been available, let alone for Indonesian students of English at Kanjuruhan University of Malang. Considering this fact, we dare write a little book on English syntax. This little book was written on the basis of our students’ work on English syntax. A lot of input has been obtained after many years of teaching English syntax. The given data which become the raw materials for this little book were then compiled, and re-set under several headings. This little book falls into three big parts. Each part treats different topics which are then elaborated into several chapters. The first part deals with syntactic structures of modification, which are termed as phrases in grammar. The second part is about syntactic structures of predication and complementation which are crystallized into five basic sentence patterns where grammatical functions play their roles. The last part is concerned with semantic roles. The roles are divided into participants, processes, and circumstances