An Introduction to SyntaxClearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive new textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data from a typologically wide variety of languages. The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax. Each chapter includes generous exercises and recommendations for further study. |
Contents
Syntax lexical categories and morphology | 1 |
11 Aspects of syntactic structure | 4 |
12 Lexical categories | 6 |
13 Morphology | 13 |
Notes and suggested readings | 17 |
Grammatical relations | 21 |
21 Grammatical relations versus semantic roles | 22 |
22 Properties of grammatical relations | 33 |
45 Constituent structure and grammatical relations | 137 |
Notes and suggested readings | 142 |
Grammar and lexicon | 144 |
52 The lexicon and subcategorization | 156 |
53 Relationaldependency rules and lexicon | 162 |
54 Concluding remarks | 168 |
Notes and suggested readings | 169 |
Theories of syntax | 172 |
23 Other systems of grammatical relations | 70 |
24 Conclusion | 79 |
Exercises | 80 |
Dependency relations | 86 |
31 Syntactic dependencies | 87 |
Dependency representations | 101 |
Conclusion | 106 |
Notes and suggested readings | 107 |
Constituent structure | 110 |
41 Constituents and their formal representation | 111 |
42 The universality of form classes | 119 |
43 An alternative schema for phrase structure | 122 |
44 The structure of complex sentences | 133 |
61 Relational Grammar | 173 |
62 LexicalFunctional Grammar | 182 |
63 GovernmentBinding Theory | 193 |
64 Role and Reference Grammar | 205 |
Summary | 218 |
66 Other syntactic theories | 221 |
67 Conclusion | 224 |
Notes and suggested readings | 225 |
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Common terms and phrases
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