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Author | : Jong-Bok Kim |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108634753 |
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Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the analyses of particular structures are, but also how and why those analyses are constructed, with each chapter taking the student step-by-step through the reasoning processes that yield the best description of a data set. It offers a wealth of illustrative examples and exercises, largely based on real language data, making it ideal for both self-study and classroom use. Written in an accessible and engaging way, this textbook will open up this increasingly popular linguistic framework to anyone interested in the grammatical patterns of English.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
Download Syntactic Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Martin Hilpert |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748675868 |
Download Construction Grammar and its Application to English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198299547 |
Download Radical Construction Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Author | : Jim Miller |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-09-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748633626 |
Download Introduction to English Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key FeaturesCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided.
Author | : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108419569 |
Download Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Author | : David M. Perlmutter |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780520038288 |
Download Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
[This book] presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly written, it is an invaluable resource for working linguists as well as a pedagogical tool of unequaled depth and breadth. The chief focus of the book is syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals. It includes a wide variety of problems that guide the reader in constructing arguments deciding between alternative analyses of syntactic constructions and alternative theoretical formulations. -- Back cover.
Author | : Jong-Bok Kim |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Download English Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts"--Publisher's description.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900436353X |
Download Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.
Author | : James D. McCawley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226556247 |
Download The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Volume 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special knowledge of syntax is presupposed, and the number and variety of exercises after each chapter have been increased. And now available from the author! Answers to Selected Exercises. Instructors using James D. McCawley's The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Second Edition may request a complimentary copy of Answers to Selected Exercises in The Syntactic Phenomena of English by writing on their department's letterhead to the author, James D. McCawley, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. [Note: This material is available only from the author and is not available from the University of Chicago Press.]