Thinking Syntactically
A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Liliane Haegeman(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2005
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-4051-1852-1 (ISBN)
Description
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
Written by an established author with an international reputation.
Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
Written by an established author with an international reputation.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a strikingly original book. With her usual flair and a host of attested examples, Liliane Haegeman has provided a painless and perceptive introduction to the science of syntax." Neil Smith, University College London "Linguists' partners complain that they pay no attention to what they say, only to how they say it. Haegeman makes a virtue of this, shows where it leads and how remarkable the human capacity for language is once one thinks of it formally. She has a wonderful eye and many of her examples are drawn from newspapers and novels." David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
835 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-1852-1 (9781405118521)
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E-Book
02/2009
Wiley-Blackwell
€107.99
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Person
Liliane Haegeman is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille and a member of the CNRS research group SILEX. Her numerous works include Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (second edition, Blackwell, 1994) and English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (with Jacqueline Gueron; Blackwell, 1999).
Content
Preface. 1: Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language.
Discussion.
Exercises.
2: Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure.
Discussion.
Exercises.
3: Lexical Projections and Functional Projections.
Discussion.
Exercises.
4: Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many.
Discussion.
Exercises.
5: The Periphery of the Sentence.
Discussion.
Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.
Discussion.
Exercises.
2: Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure.
Discussion.
Exercises.
3: Lexical Projections and Functional Projections.
Discussion.
Exercises.
4: Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many.
Discussion.
Exercises.
5: The Periphery of the Sentence.
Discussion.
Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.