
Syntax
An Introduction to Minimalism
Elly Gelderen(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
175 pages
978-90-272-1254-2 (ISBN)
Description
Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective. Because the book expects no prior syntactic background, its next two chapters are on lexical and grammatical categories and on basic phrase structure rules. After these introductory chapters, the book covers the clausal spine, the VP, TP, and CP in Chapters 4, 5, and 6, respectively. For the VP, it emphasizes lexical aspect, theta-roles, and the VP-shell; for the TP and CP, it uses a cartographic approach and juxtaposes that to free adjunction. Chapter 7 covers the DP and Chapter 8 discusses the importance of features. Chapter 9 returns to some of the issues raised in Chapter 1 and summarizes the approach. It includes keywords, frequent summaries, exercises, and suggested answers to the exercises. Cartoons and frequent corpus examples enliven the text.
Reviews / Votes
[...] the book remains invaluable and very useful, especially for Syntax students and for people desiring to gain insight into the working mechanisms of Minimalism. I also find the book very informative. The presentation of linguistic facts and analyses is highly appealing to readers. The style is particularly plain and coherent. The book is greatly recommended as an introductory course book for people concerned with theoretical linguistics. -- Hassan Makhad, Cadi Ayyad University, on Linguist List 33.1436 (2022)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
xvi, 159 pp.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1254-2 (9789027212542)
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