Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. "English Syntax" aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh-questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts.
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Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides an introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. It helps students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language and understand insights into core data of its syntax.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781575865676
Publisert
2008-03-01
Utgiver
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Vekt
709 gr
Høyde
26 mm
Bredde
19 mm
Dybde
2 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Biografisk notat

Jong-Bok Kim is associate professor at the School of English at Kyung Hee University in Korea. Peter Sells is professor of linguistics at Stanford University.