(eBook PDF) Understanding Syntax (Understanding Language) 5th Edition

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product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0367198401
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367198404
• Author: Maggie Tallerman

Assuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book:

• introduces syntactic typology, syntactic description and the major typological categories found in the languages of the world;
• clarifies with examples grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause, including word classes and their syntactic properties; grammatical relations such as subject and object; case and agreement processes; passives; questions and relative clauses;
• features in-text and chapter-end exercises to extend the reader’s knowledge of syntactic concepts and argumentation, drawing on data from over 100 languages;
• highlights the principles involved in writing a brief syntactic sketch of language.

table of contents:

1 What is syntax?

2 Words belong to different classes
3 Looking inside sentences
4 Heads and their dependents

5 How do we identify constituents?
6 Relationships within the clause

7 Processes that change grammatical relations

8 Wh-constructions: questions and relative clauses

9 Asking questions about syntax

Sources of data used in examples
Glossary
References
Language index
Subject index

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