Thinking Syntactically

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1853-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
- Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
- Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
- Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
- Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
- Written by an established author with an international reputation.

Zielgruppe

undergraduates and above studying introductory syntax within linguisticscourses

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haegeman, Liliane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments vi

1 Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language 1

Discussion 1

Exercises 47

2 Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure 65

Discussion 65

Exercises 123

3 Lexical Projections and Functional Projections 155

Discussion 155

Exercises 210

4 Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many 237

Discussion 237

Exercises 268

5 The Periphery of the Sentence 305

Discussion 305

Exercises 354

Bibliography 370

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Liliane Haegeman is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille and a member of the CNRS research group SILEX. Her numerous works include Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (second edition, Blackwell, 1994) and English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (with Jacqueline Guéron; Blackwell, 1999).