Keith Brown, Jim Miller

Syntax

A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of syntax is fundamental to linguistics and language study, but it is often taught solely within the framework of transformational grammar. This book is unique in several respects: it introduces the basic concepts used in the description of syntax, independently of any single model of grammar. Most grammatical models fail to deal adequately with one aspect of syntax or another, and the authors argue that an understanding of the concepts used in any full description of language is crucial for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of formal grammars. Formal approaches to some of these concepts are critically examined. This book will train students, of either linguistics or language, to understand and make the best use of any grammar they encounter. Secondly, the book deals with the whole of syntax from immediate constituents and relations between sentences. It also examines concepts like subject and object, agent and patient, topic, comment and theme. Thirdly, there is a section on morphology, and a discussion of the relationship between syntax and morphology. As a book which explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others, this will be an invaluable introductory text. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams, and there are sets of exercises for every chapter which can be used in class, or by students working independently. This second edition has been extensively revised to take account of recent developments in syntactic studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415084215
• ISBN-10: 0415084210
• Artikelnr.: 22330538

Autorenporträt

Jim Miller is a Lecturer in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Keith Brown is a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Part one: Constituent structure
1 Constituent structure
1.1 Determining constituent structure
1.2 Representing and talking about constituent structure
1.3 Hierarchical structure
2 Form classes
2.1 Form classes
2.2 Widening the data base
3 Constituent structure grammar
3.1 A simple grammar
3.2 Generating and parsing sentences 3.3 Generative grammar
4 Formal grammars
5 Verbs and nouns
5.1 Some verb classes in English
5.2 Some noun classes in English
5.3 Selection restrictions
6 Adjectives and prepositions
6.1 Adjectives and adjective phrases
6.2 Prepositions and prepositional phrases
7 Optional constituents
7.1 Optional constituents
7.2 Modifiers and heads
7.3 Adverbs and adverbials
8 Intermediate levels of structure
8.1 Intermediate levels of structure
8.2 The specifiers, modifiers and complements of the major categories
9 Embedding, recursion and ambiguity
9.1 Embedding and recursion
9.2 Attachment and ambiguity
10 Relations between sentences
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Active and passive
10.3 Declarations and interrogatives
10.4 Wh movement and relative clauses
11 The sentence
Part two: Morphology
12 Words and morphemes
12.1 Identifying words
12.2 'Inflectional' and 'derivational' morphology 12.3 Models of inflectional morphology
12.4 Some terminology
12.5 Lexical and grammatical morphemes
12.6 The morpheme as an abstract unit
13 Morphemes and morphs
3.1 Morphs
13.2 Morphs and allomorphs
13.3 Realization
14 The morphology of the English verb
14.1 Singular and plural: a problem in analysis
14.2 Subject
verb concord
14.3 Tense and aspect in the English verb
15 Lexical morphology
16 Form classes and grammatical categories
16.1 Form classes: nouns, adjectives and verbs
16.2 Grammatical categories
Part three: Functional relations
17 Heads and modifiers: the encoding of dependency relations
17 .1 Heads and modifiers
17 .2 Encoding: word order and marking
17 .3 Linkage: agreement and government
18 Processes and participants
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Actions and states
18.3 Agent and patient: range, result and neutral
18.4 Location and motion: locative place, goal, source and path
18.5 Inchvative and causative
inchoative verbs
18.6 [State] propositions: description and identification; neutral and attribute
18.7 Conclusion
19 Grammatical functions
19.1 Subject
19.2 Object
19.3 Indirect object
19 .4 Complement
19.5 Adjuncts
19.6 Conclusion
20 Sentences in texts
20.1 Theme, rheme and end focus
20.2 Given and new
20.3 Topics
20.4 Conclusion
Further reading
References
Index.