TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aarts,Bas
TI  - English syntax and argumentation
SN  - 1350355356
AV  - PE1369 .A2 2024
U1  - 425 23/eng/20240610
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - English language
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Persuasion (Rhetoric)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -