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English syntax and argumentation / Bas Aarts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024Edition: Sixth editionDescription: viii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1350355356
  • 9781350355361
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 Aa76e 23/eng/20240610
LOC classification:
  • PE1369 .A2 2024
Contents:
Part I. Grammatical form and grammatical function -- Introduction -- Grammatical form: words, word classes and phrases -- Grammatical function -- More on form: clauses and sentences -- The grammatical form - grammatical function interface -- Part II. Elaboration -- Predicates, arguments and thematic roles -- Cross-categorial generalisations: x-bar syntax -- More on clauses -- Movement -- Tense, aspect and mood -- Part III. Argumentation -- Syntactic argumentation -- Constituency: movement and substitution -- Constituency: some additional tests -- Predicates and arguments revisited -- Part IV. Application -- Information packaging -- Grammatical indeterminacy -- Case studies.
Summary: "This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of material to support readers in consolidating their learning and knowledge at every step, from basic concepts to more advanced topics"-- Provided by Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Grammatical form and grammatical function -- Introduction -- Grammatical form: words, word classes and phrases -- Grammatical function -- More on form: clauses and sentences -- The grammatical form - grammatical function interface -- Part II. Elaboration -- Predicates, arguments and thematic roles -- Cross-categorial generalisations: x-bar syntax -- More on clauses -- Movement -- Tense, aspect and mood -- Part III. Argumentation -- Syntactic argumentation -- Constituency: movement and substitution -- Constituency: some additional tests -- Predicates and arguments revisited -- Part IV. Application -- Information packaging -- Grammatical indeterminacy -- Case studies.

"This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of material to support readers in consolidating their learning and knowledge at every step, from basic concepts to more advanced topics"-- Provided by Publisher.

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