An Introduction to Syntax: Fundamentals of Syntactic AnalysisThis comprehensive introduction to syntax explains the basic concepts of syntax, and how the structures which are in place for describing the world can also be applied to a description of language structure. Edith Moravcsik presents a detailed introduction to syntactic description, including linear order, selection, categories, meaning, sound form, variation and change. The final selection provides a summary which looks at how we can explain syntax. The book includes student-friendly features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, exercises, and a glossary of terms. |
Contents
Chapter 2 Linear Order | 28 |
Chapter 3 Selection | 63 |
Chapter 4 Categories | 101 |
Chapter 5 Syntax Meaning and Sound Form | 140 |
Chapter 6 Variation and Change | 179 |
Chapter 7 Explaining Syntax | 214 |
Glossary | 251 |
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An Introduction to Syntax: Fundamentals of Syntactic Analysis Edith A. Moravcsik Limited preview - 2006 |
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Common terms and phrases
accusative adjacency and precedence adjective adpositions adverb affix agreement marker alternative animal auxiliary Chapter clitic co-occur complex compositionality constraints constructions context cross-linguistic definite article didam direct object double-object ellipsis English ergative example explanandum explanation fact French function gender grammatical guages Hungarian immediate precedence implicans implicatum indirect interlocking intransitive inventory languages Lebanese Arabic lexical linguistic logically possible mahmud markedness mass nouns meaning and form modality morphemes nominal noun phrase observation occur order pattern order rules partonomic and taxonomic phonetic phonological plural predicts preposition properties red apple reference relative clause relativizable restricted universal Salma Samiir Section selection and order selection rules selector semantic sentence similar singular sound form statements subtypes Swahili symbol synonymy syntactic structure syntax Tagalog temporal relations tence things tion ungrammatical verb agreement verb agrees wh-questions word forms word order word selection