Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: TheBasics focuses on bringing students with little background inlinguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works.
* A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentencestructure, ideal for students who need to get up to speed on keyconcepts in the field
* Introduces readers to the central terms and concepts insyntax
* Offers a hands-on approach to understanding and performingsyntactic analysis and introduces students to linguisticargumentation
* Includes numerous problem sets, helpfully graded fordifficulty, with model answers provided at critical points
* Prepares readers for more advanced work with syntactic systemsand syntactic analyses
Nicholas Sobin
Linguistics Sprachwissenschaften Syntax
"Ultimately, I would argue that this book succeeds withits goals by laying a broad, basic, and clear foundation in thephilosophy of generative syntax, thus allowing undergraduates tolearn the nature of scientific inquiry with languages in atrimester/quarter system or supporting graduate students withlittle or distant background to read and respond to primaryliterature with more confidence and understanding." (Linguist, 27 August 2012)
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