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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2012
      August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139020565
      9780521844277
      9780521605786
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139020565
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 298 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 298 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Language and Linguistics
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    Book description

    Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications provides a systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences. Assuming no background in linguistic analysis, the book gives students a working knowledge of syntactic analysis from a minimalist perspective. Step by step it explains the fundamentals of phrase structure, movement and deletion. Well-placed exercises throughout reinforce and extend the concepts and analyses presented in the text, allowing readers to gain understanding of progressively complex issues at a comfortable pace. Much of the data comes from English, but crucial examples are also drawn from a range of other languages, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Welsh and Greek.

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    ‘This is the book I would recommend to anyone who wants to be gently led to know what the new view of human language is all about - and how much one can get out of a tiny English word.’

    Carlos P. Otero - University of California

    ‘An inspired approach by a leading syntactician to the presentation of fundamental syntactic concepts, focusing on fascinating facts (including the ambiguous sentence (!) ‘Fish fish fish fish’) and how to analyze them.’

    Howard Lasnik - University of Maryland

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