English Syntax and Argumentation
2nd Edition
Published on 14. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-333-94986-3 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook on 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. This new edition is completely revised with chapter seven now split in two to give greater prominence to clauses. It also contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-94986-3 (9780333949863)
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Bas Aarts
English Syntax and Argumentation
Book
04/2008
3rd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€32.18
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Bas Aarts
English Syntax and Argumentation
Book
05/1997
Palgrave Macmillan
€22.91
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Person
BAS AARTS is Reader in Modern English Language and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London.
Content
Preface - PART ONE: FUNCTION AND FORM - Introduction - Functions - The Building Blocks of Language: Words, Word Classes and Phrases - The Building Blocks of Language: Clauses and Sentences - The Function-Form Interface - PART TWO: ELABORATION - Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles - Cross-Categorial Generalisations: X'-Syntax - More on Clauses - Movement - PART THREE: ARGUMENTATION - Syntactic Argumentation - Constituency: Movement and Substitution - Constituency: Some Additional Tests - Predicates and Arguments Revisited - PART FOUR: APPLICATION - Case Studies - Glossary - Reference Works: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Grammars - Bibliography - Index