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Paperback | 28 September 1981

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This is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of syntax. Professor Matthews does not expound the model of any one theoretical school; nor does he attempt a straightforward synthesis of already published work. He believes that students have much to gain from the descriptive traditions of individual languages as well as from theorists. His approach is therefore thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and all the main types of construction (predication, attribution, coordination etc.). There is much that is original, and every chapter manifests Professor Matthews' characteristic good sense and scholarly discernment. Students will find this volume a challenging one, for Professor Matthews draws attention to the weakness of much current syntactic theory and, in particular, considers the problem of indeterminacy, which theorists have not been able to treat in any systematic way. However the exposition is always lucid and helpfully exemplified, mainly by English. Each chapter ends with a detailed bibliographical survey, which includes notes on terminology and other points of difficulty. Syntax clearly bridges the gap between the teaching of English grammar and that of more theoretical models. Students of English language and linguistics generally will find it a textbook of lasting value.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Grammar, Syntax & Morphology Language Learning & Teaching Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation

Preface	p. ix
Principal references	p. xi
Notice to the reader	p. xvi
Constructions	p. 1
Identification of constructions	p. 4
Indeterminacy	p. 17
Sentences	p. 26
One sentence or two?	p. 29
Incomplete sentences	p. 38
Generative syntax	p. 45
Words	p. 50
Words or morphemes?	p. 50
Markers and determiners	p. 59
Constituency and dependency	p. 71
Constituency	p. 73
Dependency	p. 78
Comparison and evaluation	p. 84
Predication	p. 96
Subject and predicate	p. 97
Copular constructions	p. 113
Objects and adverbs	p. 121
Complements and peripheral elements	p. 123
Adjuncts	p. 136
Phrases	p. 146
Complementation and modification	p. 147
Phrases as headed constructions	p. 160
Clauses	p. 168
Clause and non-clause	p. 170
Fused constructions	p. 181
Coordination	p. 195
Coordination between what?	p. 198
Non-recursive coordinates	p. 215
Juxtaposition	p. 220
Apposition	p. 224
Correlative constructions	p. 236
Realisation	p. 242
Agreement and government	p. 246
Free and fixed order	p. 255
Syntactic paradigms	p. 265
Kernels and transforms	p. 268
Abstract representations	p. 272
Transformational grammar	p. 283
Index of names	p. 297
Subject index	p. 300
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