Bas Aarts

English Syntax and Argumentation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style with many 'hands-on' in-text and chapter-final exercises. At the end of each chapter there is a section with suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works at the end of the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350308039
• Artikelnr.: 62710172

Autorenporträt

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Sixth Edition
Part I: Grammatical Form and Grammatical Function
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases
3. Grammatical Function
4. More on Form: Clauses and Sentences
5. The Grammatical Form - Grammatical Function 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. Information Packaging
16. Grammatical Indeterminacy
17. Case Studies
Glossary
Reference Works: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Grammars and Other
Publications on the English Language
Bibliography
Answer Key for the Exercises
Index