Haegeman Thinking Syntactically

A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4883-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation andAnalysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory studentsthe skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
* * Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skillsrather than merely introducing them to one particular version ofsyntactic theory.
* Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear andcompelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoreticalproposals.
* Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers,books, and television programs, to help students formulate and testhypotheses.
* Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specifictheoretical approaches but enables students to understand andevaluate different approaches more easily.
* Written by an established author with an internationalreputation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haegeman, Liliane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1: Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language.
Discussion.
Exercises.
2: Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure.
Discussion.
Exercises.
3: Lexical Projections and Functional Projections.
Discussion.
Exercises.
4: Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many.
Discussion.
Exercises.
5: The Periphery of the Sentence.
Discussion.
Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.

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).