Key Topics in Syntax

An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.

An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.

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Chomsky showed that no description of natural language syntax would be adequate without some notion of movement operations in a syntactic derivation. It now seems likely that such movement transforma

In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque

In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque

This book is a collection of key readings on Minimalist Syntax, the most recent, and arguably most important, theoretical development within the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory.

The analysis and theory developed in Zero Syntax is an important contribution to the understanding of Universal Grammar. The overriding theme is the notion that the availability and syntactic positio

一、INTRODUCTION 二、THE STRUCTURE OF THE BASIC SENTENCE 三、TRANSFORMATIONAL SYNTAX OF ENGLISH SIMPLE SENTENCES 四、TRANSFORMATIONAL SYNTAX OF ENGLISH COMPLEX SENTENCES 五、PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND APP

本書分為上、中、下冊，下冊共收錄四篇文章，以英文書寫，依序為：「On the Relation between Word-Syntax and Sentence Syntax」、「More on the Relation between Word-Syntax and Sentence Syntax」、「Further Remarks on the Relation between Word-Syntax and Sentence Syntax」、「The“Generalized”X-bar Conventions and Word-Formation Typology」。適合給研究華語語言學的專業人士作參考。 作者1931年生於台灣苗栗縣，留學美國德州大學奧斯汀分校，1972年獲語言學博士學位。先後任教於台灣師大、清大、元智、交大、輔大及新竹教育大學等，並在東吳大學日文學系任客座教授，與輔仁大學外語學院野聲講座教授

Karl Brugmann originally intended to include a volume on syntax in his comparative grammar of Indo-European, but as that ambitious project expanded, he and his publisher enlisted Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922) to take on the treatment of syntax. Delbrück's three volumes on inflection and phrase and sentence structure appeared between 1893 and 1900 and remain the fullest treatment of Indo-European syntax to this day. In this, his first volume, Delbrück gives an overview of the prevailing academic positions in the field of Indo-European comparative syntax of his day. He applies the Neogrammarian methodology used by Brugmann, and meticulously presents data relating to nouns, the case system, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, adverbs and prepositions, giving particular attention to the ablative and the dative in a number of Indo-European languages.

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family. Chapters offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues of particular

This book adopts a new approach to a major area of syntax - the way in which adjectives are bound together with other words in phrases or sentences.

Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fi

Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you’ll work with Razor syntax by bui

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe th

Belletti has collected nine previously published essays, and written two more for the volume, on clause structure and verb related syntax, and the syntax of some discourse related strategies. His unde

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 t

Boskovic (linguistics, U. of Connecticut) and Lasnik (linguistics, U. of Maryland) present a collection of excerpts from 50 of the most significant and influential texts on Minimalist Syntax, the most

The present volume consists of fourteen comparative and descriptive studies dealing with the syntax and morphology of the simple clause in Chadic. Chadic languages are the largest and the most diversi

Zagona's (linguistics and Spanish, U. of Washington) textbook is an introduction to Spanish syntax, and does not assume familiarity with current theory. A descriptive overview of the grammar is follo

An Introduction to SyntaxThis comprehensive new textbook is an engaging introduction to syntax. Clearly organized and accessible, it provides students with a through grounding in the analysis of synta

Economy considerations have always played an important role in the generative theoryof grammar. Indeed, the very development of the theory has been characterized by naturalconsiderations of simplicity

This is an introduction to the subject of English syntax for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. The detailed revisions throughout this second edition are aimed at increasin

This book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems. It presents an alternative to the Standard Theory, a model which has domi