Syntax (eBook)

A Generative Introduction

Andrew Carnie (Autor)

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2011 | 2. Auflage
224 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-30586-7 (ISBN)

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Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions.

• Includes new and extended problem sets in every chapter, all of which have been annotated for level and skill type
• Features three new chapters on advanced topics including vP shells, object shells, control, gapping and ellipsis and an additional chapter on advanced topics in binding
• Offers a brief survey of both Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
• Succeeds in strengthening the reader's foundational knowledge, and prepares them for more advanced study
• Supported by an instructor's manual and online resources for students and instructors, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/carnie

Andrew Carnie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of several books including Verb First (2005), Formal Approaches to Function (2003), and The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (2000).

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"Andrew Carnie's Syntax quickly became the standard textbookin generative syntax because it was neither overly technical norartificially simple. The second edition is substantially better andmore complete. The original discussion is expanded and there are anumber of new chapters on advanced topics like raising and control,and the book continues to include chapters that introducealternative theories like LFG and HPSG. To my mind, this is by farthe best choice on the market today." Peter Cole, University ofDelaware

Praise for the first edition...

"From first-hand experience, Carnie's book provides a highlyreadable and engaging initiation into the mindset andpreoccupations of current syntactic theory. It is useful in tyingthe cognitive implications and background of current Chomskyan worktogether with the increasing cross-linguistic emphasis in syntax.The problem sets alone were extremely appreciated by myundergraduates." Mark Baltin, New York University

"This book is a perfect example of how sophisticated syntacticconcepts can be presented in a genuinely reader-friendly way. Thesyntax student is led carefully through argumentation to currentsyntactic theory and at the end has a clear understanding not onlyof the whats of syntax but also the whys." LisadeMena Travis, McGill University

"The book is written in a reader-friendly way, and guidesstudents to grasp complicated syntactic concepts and analyses."The Linguist List

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Introducing Linguistics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Linguistics • Sprachwissenschaften • Syntax • Theoretical Linguistics • Theoretische Linguistik
• ISBN-10: 1-118-30586-8 / 1118305868
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-30586-7 / 9781118305867