This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenomena in different languages. The book covers every aspect of syntax from the basics to more specialised topics, such as clitics which have grammatical importance but cannot be used in isolation, and negation, in which a construction contradicts the meaning of a sentence.
The approach taken combines concepts from different theoretical schools, which view syntax differently. These include M. A. K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, the stratificational school advocated by Sydney Lamb, and Kenneth L. Pike's tagmemic model. The emphasis of the book is on syntactic structures rather than linguistic meaning, and the book stresses the difference between a well-formed sentence and a meaningful one. The final chapter brings these two aspects together, to show the connections between syntax and semology.
Each chapter concludes with exercises from a diverse range of languages and a list of major technical terms. The book also includes a glossary as an essential resource for students approaching this difficult subject for the first time.
- 386 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Constructions, functions, and classes
- 2 Syntax and morphology: pre-editing syntactic data
- 3 Types of phrase constructions
- 4 Concord and government in the phrase
- 5 Phrase coordination
- 6 Types of basic clause constructions
- 7 Congruence and determination in the clause
- 8 Identification and description of clitics
- 9 Negation in the clause
- 10 Varieties of clausal organization: accusative, ergative, and others
- 11 Voice and other forms of highlighting in the clause
- 12 Sentence constructions
- 13 Interrogation in clause and sentence structures
- 14 Subordinate clauses and clausoidal phrases
- 15 Syntax and semology
- Appendix: adaptations of the boxed notation
- Glossary
- References
- Index of languages
- Index of names and terms
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