Aarts, Bas 1961- creator author. text bibliography enk 2024 Sixth edition. monographic eng

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viii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. "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. 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. Bas Aarts. Includes bibliographical references and index. English language Syntax English language Semantics Persuasion (Rhetoric) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General PE1369 .A2 2024 425 Aa76e 802'367 AAR 1350355356 9781350355361 2024405197 YDX 241207 20261009094316.0 23944545 eng