Title:
English syntax and argumentation / Bas Aarts.
Author:
Aarts, Bas, 1961-
Publication Information:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Call Number:
PE1369 .A2 2013
Abstract:
This textbook aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. Aarts provides further reading lists and end-of-chapter exercises.
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
9780230361690
Series:
Palgrave modern linguistics
Physical Description:
xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part I Function and Form -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Function -- 3 Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases -- 4 More on Form: Clauses and Sentences -- 5 The Function-Form Interface -- Part II Elaboration -- 6 Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles -- 7 Cross-Categorial Generalisations: X-Bar Syntax -- 8 More on Clauses -- 9 Movement -- 10 Tense, Aspect and Mood -- Part III Argumentation -- 11 Syntactic Argumentation -- 12 Constituency: Movement and Substitution -- 13 Constituency: Some Additional Tests -- 14 Predicates and Arguments Revisited -- Part IV Application -- 15 Grammatical Indeterminacy -- 16 Case Studies.
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