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1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : illustrations |
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Open linguistics series |
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Open linguistics series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Constructions, functions, and classes; What is syntax?; The construction: an essential element in syntax; Functions within constructions; The manifestation of functions; Application to basic clausal data; Orders of functions in transitive clauses; Summary of notations introduced; Exercises; Terminology; 2 Syntax and morphology: pre-editing syntactic data; Inflection in English; Abstracting out morphological details; Patterns of pre-editing; Summary of inflectional categories; Summary of new notations; Exercises; Terminology; 3 Types of phrase constructions |
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The noun phrase: a typical endocentric phraseOther endocentric phrases; The problem of the verb phrase; Exocentric phrases; Summary of phrasal constituents and symbols; Exercises; Terminology; 4 Concord and government in the phrase; Simple concord; Gender concord; Grammatical government; Types of phrasal congruence; Notations for concord and government; Exercises; Terminology; 5 Phrase coordination; Basic varieties of coordination; Position of conjunctions; Formalization of coordination; Structural types of coordination; General patterns of coordination; Exercises; Terminology |
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6 Types of basic clause constructionsVerbal clauses and their elements; Basic clause types in English; Expressing ""being"" in different languages; Non-verbal clauses; Summary of clausal constituents and symbols; Exercises; Terminology; 7 Congruence and determination in the clause; Congruence between Subject and Predicator; Congruence between Predicator and Objects; Government in the clause; Determination; Summary of new notations; Exercises; Terminology; 8 Identification and description of clitics; What is a clitic?; Identification by separability; Identification by comembership |
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Identification by differential linkageClassification of clitics; Fitting clitics into syntactic description; Exercises; Terminology; 9 Negation in the clause; Inflectional negation; Negation by simple particles; Discontinuous negation; Special constituent orders in the negative; Special relations of government in the negative; Special auxiliary uses in the negative; Negative concord and anti-concord; Exercises; Terminology; 10 Varieties of clausal organization: accusative, ergative, and others; Accusative and ergative perspectives illustrated; Split ergativity |
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Further varieties of organizationSummary; Exercises; Terminology; 11 Voice and other forms of highlighting in the clause; Active and passive voices; Varieties of the passive; The antipassive; Highlighting in general; Exercises; Terminology; 12 Sentence constructions; The rank hierarchy; A traditional classification; An alternative traditional classification; Special sentence types of English; Summary of sentence structures; Exercises; Terminology; 13 Interrogation in clause and sentence structures; Basic classification of interrogatives; Expression of polarity questions |
| Summary |
This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students about the varieties of syntactic phenomena in different languages and a method of analyzing and describing them. The method is based on the concept of the syntactic construction, which is shared by various views of language structure. In this particular presentation, a construction is characterized as a combination of obligatory and optional functions, and each of these functions is related to a class of manifestations. Syntax as a whole is then seen as interrelating constructions on the ranks (size-levels) of the phr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Text in English with words and sentences in multiple languages |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
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Morphosyntax
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Satztyp
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Satzverbindung
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Satzbauplan
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Satzglied
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Syntaxis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441162564 |
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1441162569 |
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9781441157560 |
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1441157565 |
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1283206501 |
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9781283206501 |
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9786613206503 |
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6613206504 |
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