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English Syntax and Argumentation.

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正題名/作者:	English Syntax and Argumentation./
作者:	Aarts, Bas.
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ISBN:	9780230801776

English Syntax and Argumentation.
Aarts, Bas.

English Syntax and Argumentation. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (327 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- PART I: FUNCTION AND FORM -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Function -- 2.1 Subject and Predicate -- 2.2 Predicator -- 2.3 Direct Object -- 2.4 Indirect Object -- 2.5 Adjunct -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases -- 3.1 The notion 'word' -- 3.2 Nouns and determiners -- 3.3 Adjectives -- 3.4 Verbs -- 3.5 Prepositions -- 3.6 Adverbs -- 3.7 Conjunctions -- 3.8 Interjections -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 More on Form: Clauses and Sentences -- 4.1 Clauses and clause hierarchies -- 4.2 The rank scale -- 4.3 Sentence types -- 4.4 More on tree diagrams -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 The Function-Form Interface -- 5.1 Function-form relationships -- 5.2 Realisations of the Subject -- 5.3 Realisation of the Predicate and Predicator -- 5.4 Realisations of the Direct Object -- 5.5 Realisations of the Indirect Object -- 5.6 Realisations of Adjuncts -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- PART II: ELABORATION -- Chapter 6 Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles -- 6.1 Predicates and arguments -- 6.2 Thematic roles -- 6.3 Grammatical functions and thematic roles -- 6.4 Selectional restrictions -- 6.5 Three levels of description -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Cross-Categorial Generalisations: X-bar Syntax -- 7.1 Heads, Complements and Specifiers -- 7.2 Adjuncts -- 7.3 Cross-categorial generalisations -- 7.4 Subcategorisation -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 More on Clauses -- 8.1 The I-node -- 8.2 Subordinate clauses -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Movement -- 9.1 Verb movement: aspectual auxiliaries -- 9.2 NP-movement: passive.

This textbook on syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. This edition contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty.

ISBN: 9780230801776Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English language.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PE1369 .A2 2001eb

Dewey Class. No.: 425

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505 0 $a Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- PART I: FUNCTION AND FORM -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Function -- 2.1 Subject and Predicate -- 2.2 Predicator -- 2.3 Direct Object -- 2.4 Indirect Object -- 2.5 Adjunct -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases -- 3.1 The notion 'word' -- 3.2 Nouns and determiners -- 3.3 Adjectives -- 3.4 Verbs -- 3.5 Prepositions -- 3.6 Adverbs -- 3.7 Conjunctions -- 3.8 Interjections -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 More on Form: Clauses and Sentences -- 4.1 Clauses and clause hierarchies -- 4.2 The rank scale -- 4.3 Sentence types -- 4.4 More on tree diagrams -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 The Function-Form Interface -- 5.1 Function-form relationships -- 5.2 Realisations of the Subject -- 5.3 Realisation of the Predicate and Predicator -- 5.4 Realisations of the Direct Object -- 5.5 Realisations of the Indirect Object -- 5.6 Realisations of Adjuncts -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- PART II: ELABORATION -- Chapter 6 Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles -- 6.1 Predicates and arguments -- 6.2 Thematic roles -- 6.3 Grammatical functions and thematic roles -- 6.4 Selectional restrictions -- 6.5 Three levels of description -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Cross-Categorial Generalisations: X-bar Syntax -- 7.1 Heads, Complements and Specifiers -- 7.2 Adjuncts -- 7.3 Cross-categorial generalisations -- 7.4 Subcategorisation -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 More on Clauses -- 8.1 The I-node -- 8.2 Subordinate clauses -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Movement -- 9.1 Verb movement: aspectual auxiliaries -- 9.2 NP-movement: passive.
505 8 $a 9.3 NP-movement: Subject-to-Subject raising -- 9.4 Movement in interrogative sentences: Subject-auxiliary inversion -- 9.5 Wh-movement -- 9.6 The structure of sentences containing one or more auxiliaries -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- PART III: ARGUMENTATION -- Chapter 10 Syntactic Argumentation -- 10.1 The art of argumentation -- 10.2 Economy of description: Linguistically Significant Generalisations and Occam's razor -- 10.3 Further constraints on description: elegance and independent justifications -- 10.4 Evaluating analyses -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Constituency: Movement and Substitution -- 11.1 Movement -- 11.2 Substitution -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Constituency: Some Additional Tests -- 12.1 Coordination -- 12.2 Cleft and Pseudocleft sentences -- 12.3 The Insertion Test -- 12.4 The Constituent Response Test -- 12.5 The Somewhere Else Test -- 12.6 The Meaning Test -- 12.7 A case study: the Naked Pizza Eating-construction -- 12.8 Some caveats regarding the tests -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Predicates and Arguments Revisited -- 13.1 Establishing argumenthood -- 13.2 Two further types of verb + NP + to-infinitive construction: persuade and want -- 13.3 Conclusion -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- PART IV: APPLICATION -- Chapter 14 Case Studies -- 14.1 Word classes -- 14.2 Noun Phrase structure -- 14.3 Verb complementation -- 14.4 Concluding remarks -- Key Concepts -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Reference Works: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Grammars -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V.
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