English Syntax, second edition

By: C. L. Baker

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Paperback | 27 March 1995 | Edition Number 2

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An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.

English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. The detailed revisions throughout this new edition are aimed at increasing its clarity and usefulness. There are changes in almost every chapter, including a large number of new exercises and several new subsections. In addition there are two new appendixes, the first sketching the relation of English syntax to the wider field of generative syntactic theory, the second summarizing the basic syntactic structures discussed in the body of the text.

Specific changes include a fuller discussion, at the beginning of chapter 3, of the difference between complements and modifiers; a more systematic introduction to tree diagrams and what they express, at the end of chapter 3; a new subsection in chapter 4 on how to analyze complex structures; a new discussion of the general nature of missing-phrase constructions in chapter 9; a significant revision of the discussion of comparative clauses in chapter 12; a new discussion of the scope of negation in chapter 15; and, in chapter 16, a new discussion of practical strategies for analyzing conjoined structures.

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Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction	p. 1
The Field of English Syntax	p. 3
The Syntax of Phrases: Heads, Complements, and Subjects	p. 35
Major English Phrase Types	p. 37
Phrase-Internal Syntax: Heads and Their Complements	p. 59
Clauses as Complements and Subjects	p. 97
Noun Phrases	p. 147
Locative Phrases, Motion Phrases, and Particles	p. 191
Free Relative Clauses	p. 203
Subjects of Phrases	p. 227
Passives and the Easy Construction	p. 255
The Syntax of Phrases: Modification	p. 289
Modification of Nouns and Noun Phrases	p. 291
Modification of Verb Phrases and Sentences	p. 337
Degree Modification	p. 375
Special Constructions	p. 423
Special Subject-Predicate Relations	p. 425
Special Sentence Types	p. 455
Some Topics in the Semantic Interpretation of English	p. 477
Negation	p. 479
Conjunction and Ellipsis	p. 501
Time Relations and Aspect	p. 527
Appendix A The Context of English Syntax: Epilogue with References	p. 585
Appendix B Summary of Basic Syntactic Structures	p. 615
Index	p. 635
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