An Introduction to Syntax

By: Robert D. Jr. Van Valin, Jr. Valin, Robert D. Van JR. Valin

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Hardcover | 31 May 2001

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This comprehensive textbook is an engaging introduction to syntax. Clearly organized and accessible, it provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data from a typologically wide variety of languages. The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax. Each chapter includes generous exercises and recommendations for further study. The emphasis on languages and data sets this book apart from other introductions to syntax. This book is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate students on courses devoted to the study of syntax. It will also be very valuable to students in other cognitive science fields who are interested in language.

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"...it is a great success. The book is well organised and clearly written. It gives both general knowledge and a bird-eye view of the current syntactic research; it also addresses many particular syntactic problems... VV's Introduction is an excellent guide for any student of syntax, including the beginners, but can also be used by syntacticians as a very convenient conspectus. It illustrates the main aspects of syntactic analysis with data from typologically diverse languages; the clear presentation helps a lot in understanding the most complicated syntactic problems. It is highly recommended as a textbook for any student in linguistics, and as a summary of achievements, trends, and problems in modern syntactic theory." Canadian Journal of Linguistics

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List of figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xv
Syntax, lexical categories, and morphology	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Aspects of syntactic structure	p. 4
Lexical categories	p. 6
Morphology	p. 13
Notes and suggested readings	p. 17
Exercises	p. 17
Grammatical relations	p. 21
Introduction	p. 21
Grammatical relations versus semantic roles	p. 22
Properties of grammatical relations	p. 33
Other systems of grammatical relations	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 79
Notes and suggested readings	p. 79
Exercises	p. 80
Dependency relations	p. 86
Introduction	p. 86
Syntactic dependencies	p. 87
Dependency representations	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 106
Notes and suggested readings	p. 107
Exercises	p. 107
Constituent structure	p. 110
Introduction	p. 110
Constituents and their formal representation	p. 111
The universality of form classes	p. 119
An alternative schema for phrase structure	p. 122
The structure of complex sentences	p. 133
Constituent structure and grammatical relations	p. 137
Notes and suggested readings	p. 142
Exercises	p. 142
Grammar and lexicon	p. 144
Introduction	p. 144
Phrase structure rules	p. 144
The lexicon and subcategorization	p. 156
Relational-dependency rules and lexicon	p. 162
Concluding remarks	p. 168
Notes and suggested readings	p. 169
Exercises	p. 169
Theories of syntax	p. 172
Introduction	p. 172
Relational Grammar	p. 173
Lexical-Functional Grammar	p. 182
Government-Binding Theory	p. 193
Role and Reference Grammar	p. 205
Summary	p. 218
Other syntactic theories	p. 221
Conclusion	p. 224
Notes and suggested readings	p. 225
Exercises	p. 225
References	p. 227
Language index	p. 234
Subject index	p. 236
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