Thinking Syntactically
A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Published on 4. February 2009
352 pages
978-1-4051-4883-2 (ISBN)
Description
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation andAnalysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory studentsthe skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
* * Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skillsrather than merely introducing them to one particular version ofsyntactic theory.
* Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear andcompelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoreticalproposals.
* Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers,books, and television programs, to help students formulate and testhypotheses.
* Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specifictheoretical approaches but enables students to understand andevaluate different approaches more easily.
* Written by an established author with an internationalreputation.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a strikingly original book. With her usual flair and ahost of attested examples, Liliane Haegeman has provided a painlessand perceptive introduction to the science of syntax." --Neil Smith, University College London "Linguists' partners complain that they pay no attention to whatthey say, only to how they say it. Haegeman makes a virtue of this,shows where it leads and how remarkable the human capacity forlanguage is once one thinks of it formally. She has a wonderful eyeand many of her examples are drawn from newspapers andnovels." --David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation,Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesMore details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2005
1st Edition
Wiley
€133.64
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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 Guéron; 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.
