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Author | : Christina Tortora |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-07-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1118659740 |
Download Understanding Sentence Structure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed. This practical guide excites and empowers readers by guiding them step by step through each chapter with intermittent exercises. In order to capitalize on the reader's confidence as a personal authority on English, Understanding Sentence Structure assumes an inclusive definition of English, taking dialect variation and structures common amongst millions of English speakers to be a fact of natural language. Situates grammar as part of what the student already unconsciously knows Presupposes no prior instruction, not even in prescriptive grammar Begins analyzing sentences immediately, with the “big picture” (sentences have structure, structure can be ambiguous) and moves through levels of complexity, tapping into students’ tacit knowledge of sentence structure Includes exercise boxes for in-chapter practicing of skills, side notes that offer further tips/encouragement on topics being discussed, and new terms defined immediately and helpfully in term boxes Applies decades of findings in syntactic theory and cognitive science, with an eye towards making English grammar accessible to school teachers and beginning students alike Understanding Sentence Structure: An Introduction to English Syntax is an ideal book for undergraduates studying modern English grammar and for instructors teaching introductory courses in English grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
Author | : Constance Hale |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-08-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0385346891 |
Download Sin and Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fully revised and updated edition with writing prompts and challenges in every chapter Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax—now celebrating 20 years in print—is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.
Author | : Keith Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2020-10-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000158748 |
Download Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others. This book introduces the basic concepts used in the description of syntax, independently of any single model of grammar. Profusely illustrated with diagrams, there are sets of exercises for every chapter which can be used in class or by students working independently.
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 | : Sv?tla ?mejrková |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027215510 |
Download The Syntax of Sentence and Text Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of Frantisek Danes and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Danes' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in the 27 papers collected in four thematic sections of this volume.
Author | : Virginia Tufte |
Publisher | : Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : |
Download Artful Sentences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Noel Burton-Roberts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317293827 |
Download Analysing Sentences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This highly successful text has long been considered the standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. It covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and also utilises tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences. In this fourth edition, Analysing Sentences has been thoroughly revised and now features a brand new companion website with additional activities and exercises for students and an answer book for the in-text exercises for professors. The extra activities on the website give students practice in identifying syntactic phenomena in running text and will help to deepen understanding of this topic. Accessible and clear, this book is the perfect textbook for readers coming to this topic for the first time. Featuring many in-text, end-of-chapter and Further Exercises, it is suitable for self-directed study as well as for use as core reading on courses.
Author | : Wayne Cowart |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1997-01-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0761900438 |
Download Experimental Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to methods that linguists can use to study patterns of sentence acceptability in speech. Experimental Syntax shows how to design, execute and analyze an appropriate survey experiment for a well-formed question about a matter of fact relative to sentence acceptability. The book also examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect.
Author | : Pádraig MacCoisdealbha |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110952661 |
Download The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Old Irish is the language of Ireland in the period from the 8th to the 10th century AD, and is the oldest Celtic language well enough attested for adequate grammatical study. The book provides the only available detailed linguistic analysis of the syntactic structure of the Old Irish sentence. The basic form of the simple sentence, with the usual order of elements, verb-subject-object, is unproblematic from a synchronic viewpoint, but certain sentence types show more complex patterns of syntax, which have important implications for the typological, diachronic and comparative-historical analysis of Old Irish in particular, and Celtic and Indo-European languages in general. Sentence types which contain obligatory cataphoric pronouns referring to elements later in the same sentence are examined in detail, as well as constructions with marked initial topics, and the focussing construction of the cleft sentence. The approach is functional and typological, on the basis of a text corpus from the glosses on the Pauline epistles at Würzburg, with further material from Old Irish legal texts. The emphasis is on the communicative content and intent of the sentences of the corpus. The book is a newly edited version of MacCoisdealbha's Bochum dissertation of 1974, previously unpublished due to the author's death in 1976, and includes textual notes by the editor indicating progress, and indeed lack of progress, in the meantime, in areas covered by the book.
Author | : E. K. Brown |
Publisher | : Hutchinson Radius |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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